The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 80
Afterwards the youth and the Witch-maiden conversed pleasantly together, until a woman, dressed in red, came in to remind them that it was bedtime.
Who acts: woman, youth, word · What happens: converse, dress, come in, remind, be · To what, where: Witch maiden, red, chairs, bedtime · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, youth, word), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 maiden | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 6 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Witch | punct |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 youth | conj |
| 9 | conversed | converse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 maiden | acl |
| 10 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 11 together | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 conversed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 dressed | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dressed | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 conversed | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 red | case |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dressed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 remind | mark |
| 24 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 came | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remind | iobj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 bedtime | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bedtime | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bedtime | cop |
| 29 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remind | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | converse speech: other | participle | the Witch maiden not said here | together property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | a woman | red | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | the youth and the Witch maiden | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | the youth and the Witch maiden not said here | chairs = chair | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | word | bedtime | 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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