The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 94

As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy, Dotterine took off her own clothes, and put on those of a peasant, and in order to disguise her better her godmother changed her face completely.

Who acts: godmother, Dotterine · What happens: be, take off, put, disguise, change · To what, where: own clothes, those, Dotterine, face

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, Dotterine), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 took	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 Dotterine	case
4	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clear	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 godmother	nmod:poss
7	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clear	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 clear	cop
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dotterine	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 enemy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enemy	det
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clear	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Dotterine	punct
14	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 took	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 those	case
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 peasant	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 peasant	det
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 those	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 disguise	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 disguise	cc
30	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 disguise	mark
31	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 in	fixed
32	to	to	PART	_	33 disguise	mark
33	disguise	disguise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 took	parataxis
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 disguise	obj
35	better	better	SCONJ	_	38 changed	mark
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 godmother	nmod:poss
37	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 changed	nsubj
38	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 disguise	advcl
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 face	nmod:poss
40	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 changed	obj
41	completely	completely	ADV	_	38 changed	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dotterine's godmother				of the enemy; clear property	tree rules
2	take off	past	Dotterine	Dotterine's own clothes			as Dotterine; soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	put	participle	Dotterine not said here			those		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on that=Destination
4	disguise	to-infinitive			Dotterine			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination
5	change	past	Dotterine's godmother	Dotterine's face			completely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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