The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 31

Before beginning her work she washed herself carefully, and even put on her rings; but, while she was baking, one of her rings slid into the dough.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: begin, wash, put, bake, slide, work · To what, where: work, maiden, rings, one, dough

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 (maiden), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 beginning	mark
2	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 washed	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 work	nmod:poss
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beginning	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 washed	nsubj
6	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 washed	obj
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	6 washed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 washed	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 rings	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rings	nmod:poss
15	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 slid	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 slid	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 but	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 baking	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 baking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 baking	aux
22	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 slid	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 baking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 rings	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rings	nmod:poss
27	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 washed	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 dough	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dough	det
31	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slid	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	gerund	maiden not said here	maiden's work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	wash	past	maiden	maiden		carefully property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	put	infinitive	maiden not said here		maiden's rings		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ring=Destination
4	bake	past · progressive	maiden	one of maiden's rings			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	slide	past	maiden not said here		the dough		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dough=Destination
6	work		maiden				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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