The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 37
Then she took her little oil-lamp, and went into her little room, drew off her fur cloak, and washed off the soot from her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth, and it was as if one sunbeam after another were coming out of a black cloud.
Who acts: cook, beauty · What happens: take, go, draw off, wash off, shine, come out · To what, where: little oil lamp, little room, fur cloak, soot, black cloud
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, beauty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lamp | amod |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lamp | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 oil | punct |
| 8 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 cloak | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cloak | compound |
| 21 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 washed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 washed | cc |
| 24 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 soot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 soot | det |
| 27 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 washed | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 face | nmod:poss |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soot | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hands | cc |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 face | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shone | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 shone | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 37 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shone | nsubj |
| 38 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 washed | conj |
| 39 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 38 shone | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 coming | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 coming | cc |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 coming | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 coming | aux |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 coming | mark |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 51 coming | mark |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 sunbeam | nummod |
| 47 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 coming | nsubj |
| 48 | after | after | ADP | _ | 49 another | case |
| 49 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 sunbeam | nmod |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 coming | aux |
| 51 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 52 | out | out | ADP | _ | 56 cloud | case |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 cloud | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 cloud | det |
| 55 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 cloud | amod |
| 56 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 coming | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | cook | cook's little oil lamp | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | cook not said here | cook's little room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | draw off | past | cook not said here | cook's fur cloak | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wash off | participle | the soot from cook's face and hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soot=Patient | |||||
| 5 | shine | past | cook's beauty | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come out a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | beauty | a black cloud | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cloud=Result |
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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