The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 54
The queen gave her permission, and the stepmother combed her hair until she fell asleep.
Who acts: queen, stepmother · What happens: give, comb, fall, permit · To what, where: permission, hair
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, stepmother), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 permission | nmod:poss |
| 5 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 combed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 combed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stepmother | det |
| 9 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 combed | nsubj |
| 10 | combed | comb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 combed | obj |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 fell | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 combed | advcl |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the queen | queen's permission | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | ||||
| 2 | comb | past | the stepmother | queen's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | queen | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | permit | queen | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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