The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 75
Now she put on the dress as shining as the stars, and stepped into the hall in it.
Who acts: cook · What happens: put, shine, step · To what, where: dress, hall
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dress | det |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 shining | mark |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shining | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stepped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stepped | cc |
| 14 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stepped | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stepped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | cook | the dress | now | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | cook not said here | as the stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step | past | cook not said here | the hall | in hall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hall=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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