The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 13
After that she smeared mud all over her hands and face, and shook her hair into a great tangle.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: smear, shake · To what, where: mud, hands, hair, great tangle
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 smeared | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smeared | nsubj |
| 4 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smeared | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 hands | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smeared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 face | cc |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hands | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shook | cc |
| 14 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smeared | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tangle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tangle | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tangle | amod |
| 20 | tangle | tangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | past | Princess | mud | Princess's hands and face | after that | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme over hand=Destination | ||
| 2 | shake | past | Princess not said here | Princess's hair | a great tangle | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme into tangle=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/13/