The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 153
Then she drew her golden comb gently through Elsa’s hair, and bade her go to bed; but little sleep had the poor girl!
Who acts: part, bade, little sleep · What happens: draw, go, have · To what, where: golden comb, hair, bed, poor girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, bade, little sleep), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comb | nmod:poss |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 comb | amod |
| 6 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 hair | case |
| 9 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Elsa | case |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bade | punct |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sleep | amod |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girl | amod |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | part | part's golden comb | Elsa's hair | then | gently property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme | |
| 2 | go | infinitive | bade | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | little sleep | the poor girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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