The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 167
Shortly afterwards Halvor came to the girls who were standing washing, and they asked him if he had seen anything of the West Wind, who was to come there to dry the clothes for the wedding.
Who acts: Halvor, girls, West Wind · What happens: come, stand, ask, see, dry · To what, where: washing, Halvor, anything, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, girls, West Wind), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 girls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girls | det |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 standing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | aux |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 girls | acl:relcl |
| 11 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | advcl |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 seen | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Wind | det |
| 24 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Wind | compound |
| 25 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 anything | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 come | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Wind | parataxis |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 dry | mark |
| 33 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clothes | det |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 dry | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 wedding | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wedding | det |
| 38 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 clothes | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Halvor | to the girls; afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the girls | washing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | girls = girl | Halvor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Halvor | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the West Wind | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dry | to-infinitive | the West Wind not said here | the clothes | for the wedding | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result |
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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