The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 89
And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold.
Who acts: servant, beautiful dress · What happens: wash up, bite, be, make · To what, where: third 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, beautiful 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 washed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 washed | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 washed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 washed | aux |
| 5 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 washed | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washed | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bit | nsubj |
| 12 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 night | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nut | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 nut | amod |
| 15 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 washed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dress | det |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dress | amod |
| 24 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dress | acl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 30 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gold | amod |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash up | past · perfect | servant | night | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | servant | the third nut | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a beautiful dress | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | a beautiful dress not said here | a beautiful dress | of pure gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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