The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 67
Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by-and-bye it came to the ears of the princess.
Who acts: maiden, maid, everyone, hair · What happens: dress, make, look, admire, praise, come · To what, where: hair, maid, ears
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, maid, everyone, hair), 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 | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obj |
| 7 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dressed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 neat | advmod |
| 14 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smart | cc |
| 16 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 neat | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 admired | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 admired | cc |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 admired | nsubj |
| 20 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 praised | cc |
| 22 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 admired | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 praised | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 till | fixed |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 by | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 30 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 32 came | discourse |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 admired | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ears | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ears | det |
| 35 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 princess | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 princess | det |
| 38 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ears | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | the maiden | maid's hair | then | afresh property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | past | the maiden not said here | maid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | maid not said here | neat property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | admire | past | everyone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | praise | past | everyone not said here | maid | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | hair | the ears of the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location |
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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