The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 37
When evening drew near she stole out of the peasant’s cottage secretly, and, going to her hiding-place, she put on her dress embroidered with the gold suns, and all her jewels, and loosed her beautiful golden hair, which up to now she had always worn under a kerchief, and, adorned thus, she set out for the town.
Who acts: Helena, dress · What happens: draw, steal, go, put, embroider, loose · To what, where: cottage, hiding place, jewels, beautiful golden hair, kerchief
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, dress), 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 | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 stole | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cottage | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cottage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasant | det |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 peasant | case |
| 12 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl |
| 13 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 6 stole | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hiding | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 29 embroidered | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dress | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 embroidered | nsubj |
| 29 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 suns | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 suns | det |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 suns | compound |
| 33 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 embroidered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 jewels | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 jewels | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 jewels | det:predet |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 38 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 loosed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 loosed | cc |
| 41 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | conj |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hair | nmod:poss |
| 43 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hair | amod |
| 44 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hair | amod |
| 45 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 loosed | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 which | punct |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 hair | nmod |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 which | compound:prt |
| 49 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 54 worn | mark |
| 50 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 54 worn | advmod |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 worn | nsubj |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 worn | aux |
| 53 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 54 worn | advmod |
| 54 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 which | acl |
| 55 | under | under | ADP | _ | 57 kerchief | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 kerchief | det |
| 57 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 worn | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 adorned | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 adorned | cc |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 adorned | punct |
| 61 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 worn | conj |
| 62 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 61 adorned | advmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 set | punct |
| 64 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 set | nsubj |
| 65 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 adorned | conj |
| 66 | out | out | ADP | _ | 65 set | compound:prt |
| 67 | for | for | ADP | _ | 69 town | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 town | det |
| 69 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 set | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Helena not said here | evening | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | Helena | the peasant's cottage | secretly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cottage=Location | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | Helena not said here | Helena's hiding place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Helena | Helena's jewels | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | embroider | past | Helena's dress | with the gold suns | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sun=Theme | ||||
| 6 | loose | past | Helena not said here | Helena's beautiful golden hair | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 7 | wear | past · perfect | Helena | a kerchief | now | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||
| 8 | adorn | participle | Helena not said here | thus property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | set out | past | Helena | for the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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