The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 50
And one of the ladies-in-waiting had to go down; but she put on wooden clogs.
Who acts: one, instrument · What happens: have, go down, put · To what, where: wooden clogs
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, instrument), 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 | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ladies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 waiting | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 waiting | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ladies | conj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 clogs | case |
| 19 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clogs | amod |
| 20 | clogs | clog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | one of the ladies and waiting | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | one of the ladies and waiting not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | put | past | instrument | wooden clogs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clog=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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