The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 30
The damsel thanked him with all her heart, and departed, and walked and walked and walked, till she came to another castle, and knocked at the door which was opened by an old woman.
Who acts: damsel, bride, old woman · What happens: thank, depart, walk, come, knock, open · To what, where: father, castle, door
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 (damsel, bride, old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 damsel | det |
| 2 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 heart | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 departed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 departed | cc |
| 11 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 departed | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 walked | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 walked | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knocked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 knocked | cc |
| 28 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 door | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 door | det |
| 31 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knocked | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 opened | aux:pass |
| 34 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 door | acl:relcl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 woman | amod |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the damsel | father | with bride's heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | come | past | bride | another castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | knock | past | the damsel not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 8 | open | past · passive | a old woman | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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