The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 84
“This looks as if it had been embroidered by the fairies!
Who acts: This, fairies · What happens: look, embroider · To what, where: red
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, fairies), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 embroidered | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 embroidered | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 embroidered | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 9 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looks | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fairies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairies | det |
| 12 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 embroidered | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | This | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | embroider in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the fairies | red | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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