The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 18
She washed herself carefully in the stream, and as she always carried her bundle with her, it was easy to shake off her rags, and transform herself in a few moments into a great lady.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: wash, carry, be, shake off, transform · To what, where: Princess, stream, bundle, 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), 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 | 2 washed | nsubj |
| 2 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 washed | obj |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 washed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 washed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 carried | advmod |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 washed | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 easy | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 easy | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 easy | cop |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carried | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 shake | mark |
| 23 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 easy | xcomp |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 shake | compound:prt |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 rags | nmod:poss |
| 26 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shake | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 transform | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 transform | cc |
| 29 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 shake | conj |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 transform | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 moments | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 moments | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 moments | amod |
| 34 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 transform | obl |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 lady | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lady | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lady | amod |
| 38 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 transform | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | Princess | Princess | the stream | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||
| 2 | carry | past | Princess | Princess's bundle | with girl; always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Princess not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shake off | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's rags | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rag=Patient | ||||
| 5 | transform | infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess | moment | into a great lady result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into lady=Result |
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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