The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 14
Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself as a goose-girl or shepherdess.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: have, change, go, offer · To what, where: appearance, Princess
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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 offering | mark |
| 10 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 offering | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 14 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 goose | punct |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offering | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 shepherdess | cc |
| 18 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | past | Princess's appearance | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | offer | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess | as a goose girl or shepherdess | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Pivot as girl=Attribute |
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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