The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 17
So she walked and she walked and she walked, till she arrived at a house built of straw.
Who acts: girl · What happens: walk, arrive, build · To what, where: house
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 walked | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 arrived | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 house | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 straw | case |
| 19 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arrive | past | girl | a house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | a house not said here | of straw | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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