The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 72
In the evening, when she had washed up and was ready, she felt in her pocket and found the three nuts which the old toad had given her.
Who acts: leg · What happens: wash up, be, feel, find, give · To what, where: three nuts, old toad, leg
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 (leg), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 washed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 washed | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 washed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 washed | aux |
| 8 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 washed | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ready | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | cop |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 washed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 washed | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl | ||
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nuts | det |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 nuts | nummod |
| 23 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 found | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 given | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 toad | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 toad | amod |
| 27 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 given | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 given | iobj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash up | past · perfect | leg | evening | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | leg not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | leg | in leg's pocket | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | find | past | leg not said here | the three nuts | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | the old toad | leg | 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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