The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 83

When she had washed up the next evening she bit the second nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside.

Who acts: servant · What happens: wash up, bite, be · To what, where: second nut, beautiful dress

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 (servant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 washed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	aux
4	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 dress	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 washed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evening	amod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obl:unmarked
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bit	nsubj
10	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 evening	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nut	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 nut	amod
13	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dress	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dress	det
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dress	amod
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 dress	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash up	past · perfect	servant		evening		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	past	servant	the second nut			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
3	is a	past		a beautiful dress		inside property	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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