The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 87

Then came the lovely maiden, and got the brush and brushed her hair till the gold dropped from it, and then she sent her Little Snow out to see if it would soon be day, and this she did three times.

Who acts: gold, bride, this · What happens: come, get, brush, drop, send, see · To what, where: brush, hair, Little Snow, day

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 (gold, bride, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maiden	amod
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brush	det
10	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brushed	cc
12	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brushed	obj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 dropped	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gold	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dropped	nsubj
18	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brushed	advcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dropped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 sent	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Snow	nmod:poss
27	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Snow	amod
28	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obj
29	out	out	ADV	_	25 sent	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 day	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 day	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 day	aux
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 day	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 day	cop
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 did	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 did	cc
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 did	nsubj
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 did	nsubj
42	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 times	nummod
44	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 did	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				then	maiden property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past		the brush				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brush=Stimulus
3	brush	past		bride's hair				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	drop	past	the gold		hair			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory
5	send	past	bride	bride's Little Snow		then	out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	bride not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	would	Gold	day			soon property	tree rules
8	do	past	this			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	snow		bride					nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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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