The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 17
One day when she was keeping her sheep in a lonely tract of land, she suddenly felt a wish to dress herself in her robes of splendour.
Who acts: Princess, wish · What happens: keep, feel, dress · To what, where: sheep, lonely tract, wish, Princess, robes
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, wish), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 keeping | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keeping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 keeping | aux |
| 6 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keeping | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tract | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tract | det |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tract | amod |
| 12 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tract | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wish | det |
| 20 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 dress | mark |
| 22 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 dress | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 robes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 robes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dress | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 splendour | case |
| 28 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 robes | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · progressive | Princess | Princess's sheep | a lonely tract of land | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in tract=Location | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Princess | a wish | day | suddenly property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | dress | to-infinitive | a wish not said here | Princess | Princess's robes of splendour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 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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