The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 32

When she had finished she dirtied herself again, and let the lumps of the dough stick to her fingers, so that she became as ugly as before.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: finish, dirty, let, become · To what, where: maiden, lumps

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dirtied	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dirtied	nsubj
6	dirtied	dirty	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 dirtied	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 dirtied	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dirtied	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lumps	det
13	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 let	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 stick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stick	det
16	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stick	compound
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lumps	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 fingers	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stick	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 became	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 became	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dirtied	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 ugly	advmod
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 before	case
29	before	before	ADV	_	27 ugly	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dirtied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	maiden				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	dirty	past	maiden	maiden	again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	let	infinitive	maiden not said here	the lumps of the dough stick to maiden's fingers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme
4	become	past	maiden			ugly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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