The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 1
The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary for herself.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go out, collect, pluck, smell · To what, where: large bundle, sprig
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 collected | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 collected | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 collected | advmod |
| 8 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bundle | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bundle | amod |
| 11 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 collected | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plucked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plucked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 plucked | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plucked | nsubj |
| 16 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sprig | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sprig | det |
| 19 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plucked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 rosemary | case |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rosemary | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sweet | punct |
| 23 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 rosemary | amod |
| 24 | rosemary | rosemary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprig | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 rosemary | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the girl | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | a large bundle | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pluck | past | girl | a sprig of sweet smelling rosemary for girl | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at sprig=Source | |||
| 4 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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