The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 69
Inside it was so hot that the Finland woman wore very few clothes; she loosened Gerda’s clothes and drew off her fur gloves and boots.
Who acts: door, Finland woman, woman · What happens: be, wear, loosen, draw off · To what, where: few clothes, clothes, fur gloves
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Finland woman, woman), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 hot | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wore | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | compound |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | advcl |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 few | advmod |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clothes | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 wore | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 loosened | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loosened | nsubj |
| 16 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | conj |
| 17 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Gerda | case |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 loosened | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drew | cc |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 loosened | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 gloves | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gloves | compound |
| 25 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drew | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 boots | cc |
| 27 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gloves | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | door | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | the Finland woman | few clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 3 | loosen | past | woman | Gerda's clothes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw off | past | woman not said here | woman's fur gloves and boots | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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