The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 43
Then she said good-bye to her father, and took a little money with her, and went again into the great wood to look for the iron stove; but she could not find it.
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, take, go, look, not find · To what, where: good bye, father, little money, great wood, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bye | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 money | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 money | amod |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wood | amod |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 stove | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stove | det |
| 30 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stove | amod |
| 31 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 find | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 find | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 find | advmod |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princess | good bye | princess's father | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to father=Recipient | ||
| 2 | take | past | a little money | with princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the great wood | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | for the iron stove | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stove=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not find | could | princess | money | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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