More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 57
Their pretty lips with blackberries Were all besmeared and dyed; And when they saw the darksome night, They sat them down and cried.
Who acts: lips · What happens: besmear, dye, see, sit down, cry · To what, where: pretty lips, babes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lips | amod |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 besmeared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 blackberries | case |
| 5 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lips | nmod |
| 6 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 besmeared | aux:pass |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 besmeared | advmod |
| 8 | besmeared | besmear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dyed | cc |
| 10 | dyed | dye | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 besmeared | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 besmeared | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 17 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 20 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sat | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 besmeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besmear | past · passive | babes's pretty lips with blackberries | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dye | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | lips = lip | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | lips = lip | babes = babe | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | lips = lip not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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