The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 79

Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress.

Who acts: girl, none, princess · What happens: go down, watch, crack, come, invent, carry · To what, where: steps, girl, walnut, splendid court dress, dressmaker, arms

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, none, princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 steps	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 watch	advmod
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 watch	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 watch	aux
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 steps	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watch	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cracked	cc
14	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 walnut	nmod:poss
16	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cracked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
19	out	out	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dress	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 splendid	advmod
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dress	amod
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dress	compound
25	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 invented	obj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 dressmaker	det
28	dressmaker	dressmaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 invented	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 invented	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 invented	advmod
31	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dress	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 carrying	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carrying	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carrying	punct
35	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carrying	obj
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	35 carrying	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 arms	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arms	nmod:poss
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carrying	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knocked	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knocked	nsubj
43	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 door	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 door	det
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knocked	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 asked	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 asked	cc
49	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 wished	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 princess	det
52	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 wished	nsubj
53	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 asked	ccomp
54	to	to	PART	_	55 buy	mark
55	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 wished	xcomp
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 dress	det
57	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 dress	compound
58	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 buy	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the girl	the steps		then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent
2	watch	could	none	girl				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	crack	past	the girl not said here	princess's walnut				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walnut=Theme
4	come	past	the girl not said here	the splendid court dress			out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme
5	invent	past · perfect · passive		any dressmaker		ever		tree rules
6	carry	gerund	the girl not said here	dressmaker	princess's arms		carefully property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location
7	knock	past	princess				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
8	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	the princess					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	a court dress				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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