The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 57
But they did not leave off, and she threw them her girdle, and when this was no use, her garters, and then her dress.
Who acts: hunters, maiden, this · What happens: not leave off, throw, be · To what, where: hunters, use
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, maiden, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 leave | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 use | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 use | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 use | advmod |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 use | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 use | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 use | det |
| 20 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 garters | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 garters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | garters | garter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 use | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dress | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dress | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 dress | advmod |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dress | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave off | past · do-support | hunters = hunter | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | maiden | hunters = hunter | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination girdle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | no use and maiden's garters | tree rules |
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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