The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 83
The queen rewarded the old woman richly, and next morning, before the sun rose, she was down in the garden, found at once the little bush with the three buds, plucked the middle one and ate it.
Who acts: queen, sun · What happens: reward, rise, be, find, pluck, eat · To what, where: old woman, garden, little bush, middle one, sun
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, sun), 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 rewarded | nsubj |
| 3 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarded | obj |
| 7 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 3 rewarded | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 morning | cc |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarded | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 rose | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rewarded | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 garden | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 garden | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 garden | cop |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 garden | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 garden | acl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 bush | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 bush | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bush | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bush | amod |
| 30 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 buds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 buds | det |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 buds | nummod |
| 34 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 bush | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 plucked | punct |
| 36 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rewarded | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 one | det |
| 38 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 one | amod |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 plucked | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ate | cc |
| 41 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 plucked | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 ate | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rewarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | past | the queen | the old woman | morning | richly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||
| 2 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | the garden | down property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | participle | the garden not said here | the little bush with the three buds | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pluck | past | the middle one | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 6 | eat | past | sun | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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