The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 66
But by this time the maiden had arrived footsore and weary at the castle, and as soon as she reached the door she cracked her nut and drew out of it the most beautiful mantle in the world.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: arrive, reach, crack, draw out · To what, where: door, nut, dress
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 (maiden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrived | aux |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | footsore | footsore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arrived | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 weary | cc |
| 11 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 footsore | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weary | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reached | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 reached | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrived | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cracked | nsubj |
| 25 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reached | parataxis |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 nut | nmod:poss |
| 27 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cracked | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drew | cc |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cracked | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mantle | det |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 beautiful | advmod |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mantle | amod |
| 36 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 world | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 world | det |
| 39 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mantle | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | the maiden | time | footsore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | maiden | the door | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 3 | crack | past | maiden | maiden's nut | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw out | past | maiden not said here | dress | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Beneficiary it=Result |
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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