The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 73

She cracked one and was going to eat the kernel, when behold! there was a beautiful royal dress inside it!

Who acts: leg, beautiful royal dress · What happens: crack, go, eat, be · To what, where: one, kernel

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, beautiful royal dress), 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 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cracked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cracked	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kernel	det
10	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 behold	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 behold	advmod
13	behold	behold	INTJ	_	2 cracked	discourse
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 behold	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cracked	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dress	det
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dress	amod
19	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dress	amod
20	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
21	inside	inside	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dress	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	crack	past	leg	one		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	leg not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	to-infinitive	leg not said here	the kernel		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Patient
4	be	past	a beautiful royal dress inside kernel		there	vn exist-47.1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/8/73/