The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 12

She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on some horrible old rags belonging to a beggar, all torn and covered with mud.

Who acts: Princess, horrible old rags · What happens: take off, wear, put, belong, tear, cover · To what, where: dress, horrible old rags

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, horrible old rags), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dress	det
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 wearing	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wearing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wearing	aux
10	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wearing	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 rags	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rags	det
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rags	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rags	amod
17	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
18	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 rags	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 beggar	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beggar	det
21	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belonging	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 all	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 beggar	nmod
24	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 all	acl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 covered	cc
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 torn	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 mud	case
28	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 covered	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off	past	Princess	the dress		therefore property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
2	wear	past · progressive	Princess				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	put	participle	Princess not said here		some horrible old rags		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on rag=Destination
4	belong	gerund	some horrible old rags not said here			to a beggar all	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	tear	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cover	participle				with mud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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