The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 118

This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains, and tied it round the Princess’ neck; this done, she cut a little hole in the bag, so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went.

Who acts: This, grains, Princess · What happens: fill, tie, do, cut, strew, go · To what, where: bag, little hole, whole road

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 (This, grains, Princess), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 filled	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 filled	nsubj
3	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 grains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grains	det
6	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 grains	amod
7	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grains	compound
8	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 filled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tied	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tied	cc
11	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tied	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	17 neck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 neck	nmod:poss
16	’	's	PART	_	15 Princess	case
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 cut	nsubj
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cut	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cut	nsubj
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hole	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hole	amod
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 bag	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bag	det
29	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hole	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 strew	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	36 strew	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 strew	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grains	det
34	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 strew	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 strew	aux
36	strew	strew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cut	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 road	det
38	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 road	amod
39	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 strew	obj
40	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	43 went	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Princess	det
42	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 went	nsubj
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 strew	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past	This			with the finest buckwheat grains	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grain=Instrument
2	tie	past	This not said here	bag		round the Princess's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	do	participle	this not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut	past	this	a little hole	the bag		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5	strew	would	the grains	the whole road			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Theme
6	go	past	the Princess			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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