The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 22
When she was quite safe, she put on her rags again, and smeared over her face and hands.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, put on, smear · To what, where: rags, face
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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1934): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 safe | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 safe | advmod |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 put | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rags | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smeared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smeared | cc |
| 15 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smeared | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hands | cc |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 face | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put on | past | girl | girl's rags | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rag=Goal | |||
| 3 | smear | past | girl not said here | girl's face and hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over face=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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