The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 38
Then she opened the nut, and took out the dress as golden as the sun. And when she had done this, she went up to the feast, and everyone stepped out of her way, for nobody knew her, and they thought she must be a King’s daughter.
Who acts: cook, everyone, nobody, dresses · What happens: open, take out, do, go up, step out, know · To what, where: nut, dress, this, way, cook, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, everyone, nobody, dresses), 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 opened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nut | det |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dress | det |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 golden | case |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sun. | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun. | det |
| 16 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 done | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 done | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 took | conj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 done | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 went | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 feast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feast | det |
| 29 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stepped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stepped | cc |
| 32 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 stepped | nsubj |
| 33 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stepped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knew | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 knew | mark |
| 40 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 knew | nsubj |
| 41 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stepped | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 knew | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 thought | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 thought | cc |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thought | nsubj |
| 46 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stepped | conj |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 daughter | nsubj |
| 48 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 daughter | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 daughter | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 King | det |
| 51 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 52 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 51 King | case |
| 53 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thought | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | cook | the nut | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | |||
| 2 | take out | past | cook not said here | the dress | as golden; as the sun. | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | cook | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | cook | to the feast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | step out | past | everyone | cook's way | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know | past | nobody | cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | dresses = dress | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | must | cook | a King's daughter | tree rules |
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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