The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 49

She went into the garden, and with her own hands she strewed ten sacks full of millet all over the grass.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: go, strew · To what, where: garden, ten sacks, grass

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strewed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strewed	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strewed	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strewed	nsubj
13	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sacks	nummod
15	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strewed	obj
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sacks	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 millet	case
18	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 grass	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grass	det
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strewed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Princess			the garden			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	strew	past	Princess	ten sacks		the grass		with Princess's own hands	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over grass=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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