The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 117
She took her great golden scissors, cut up a piece of silk, and made a pretty little bag of it.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: take, cut up, make · To what, where: great golden scissors, piece, pretty little bag
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scissors | amod |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scissors | amod |
| 6 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bag | det |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bag | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bag | amod |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bag | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Queen | Queen's great golden scissors | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut up | participle | a piece of silk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Queen not said here | a pretty little bag of bag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bag=Product |
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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