The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 24
The girl got out, and walked slowly and sadly to meet her terrible fate.
Who acts: girl · What happens: get out, walk, meet · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sadly | cc |
| 10 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 slowly | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walked | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fate | amod |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | the girl | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the girl not said here | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl | 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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