The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 73
And the girl answered that she would, and cut off the lock, and wove it into a coat that glittered like silk, and brought it to the young man, who told her to carry it straight to the giant.
Who acts: girl, coat, young man · What happens: answer, cut off, weave, glitter, bring, tell · To what, where: lock, coat, young man, girl, giant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, coat, young man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 would | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 would | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cut | cc |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 lock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lock | det |
| 13 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wove | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wove | cc |
| 16 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wove | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 coat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coat | det |
| 20 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wove | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 glittered | nsubj |
| 22 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coat | acl:relcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 silk | case |
| 24 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glittered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wove | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 told | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 told | nsubj |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 man | acl:relcl |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 told | iobj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 carry | mark |
| 38 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 told | xcomp |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carry | obj |
| 40 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 43 giant | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 giant | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 giant | det |
| 43 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carry | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | the lock | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | weave | past | the girl not said here | lock | a coat | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into coat=Product | |||
| 4 | glitter | past | a coat | like silk | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | the girl not said here | lock | the young man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to man=Destination | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | the young man | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | lock | the giant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to giant=Destination |
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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