The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 21
She took a place as herd-girl with a peasant, and buried her jewels and beautiful dresses in a safe and hidden spot.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: take, bury · To what, where: place, jewels, safe spot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 herd | punct |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 peasant | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buried | cc |
| 14 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buried | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dresses | cc |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dresses | amod |
| 19 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 jewels | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spot | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hidden | cc |
| 24 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 safe | conj |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Helena | a place | as herd girl; with a peasant | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as girl=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bury | past | Helena not said here | Helena's jewels and beautiful dresses | a safe spot | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme in spot=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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