The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 83

This time also, as before, she borrowed a brush and brushed her hair with it, and the gold dropped down as she did it; and again she sent the dog out three times, and when day dawned she departed, but as she was going she said as she had said before, ‘I shall come once more, and then never again.’

Who acts: maiden, gold, I · What happens: borrow, brush, drop down, do, send out, dawn · To what, where: brush, hair, kitchen, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, gold, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obl:unmarked
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 before	case
6	before	before	ADV	_	2 time	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 borrowed	nsubj
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brush	det
11	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brushed	cc
13	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brushed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brushed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dropped	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gold	det
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	parataxis
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 dropped	compound:prt
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 did	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dropped	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sent	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 again	cc
30	again	again	ADV	_	32 sent	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sent	nsubj
32	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dog	det
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sent	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	32 sent	compound:prt
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sent	obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dawned	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dawned	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 dawned	advmod
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dawned	obl:unmarked
42	dawned	dawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sent	conj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 departed	nsubj
44	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dawned	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 going	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 going	cc
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 going	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 going	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 going	aux
50	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 borrowed	ccomp
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 said	nsubj
52	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 going	parataxis
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 said	mark
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 said	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 said	aux
56	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 said	ccomp
57	before	before	ADV	_	56 said	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 come	punct
59	‘	'	PUNCT	_	62 come	punct
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 come	nsubj
61	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 come	aux
62	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 said	conj
63	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	64 more	advmod
64	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	62 come	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 again	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 again	cc
67	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 again	advmod
68	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	69 again	advmod
69	again	again	ADV	_	56 said	advmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 going	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	maiden	a brush	time		tree rules
2	brush	past	maiden not said here	maiden's hair		with kitchen	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Destination with it=Theme
3	drop down	past	the gold				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	maiden	kitchen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	send out	past	maiden	the dog	again; time		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
6	dawn	past	maiden not said here		day		tree rules
7	depart	past	maiden				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past · progressive	maiden				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	say speech: assert	past · perfect	maiden		again	before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	come	shall	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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