The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 11
The little maid throve wonderfully, and in a few months she could run about and speak.
Who acts: woman · What happens: run about, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 4 throve | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 throve | amod |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throve | compound |
| 4 | throve | throve | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 4 throve | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 months | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 months | amod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 run | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 run | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 throve | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 speak | cc |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 run | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | could | woman | month | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | woman not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 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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