The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 18
And, so saying, she slipped off her robes and stepped into the water.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, slip off, step · To what, where: robes, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saying | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 saying | advmod |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slipped | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slipped | nsubj |
| 7 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 robes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 robes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slipped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stepped | cc |
| 12 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slipped | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stepped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | slip off | past | Queen | Queen's robes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent robe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | step | past | Queen not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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