The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 114

The girl was so delighted at the sight of it that she gave each cat a kiss on his forehead as they left the room behind one the other as they had come.

Who acts: girl, mistress, cats · What happens: be, give, leave, come, sight · To what, where: sight, kiss, cat, room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mistress, cats), 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	5 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sight	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	advcl
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kiss	det
17	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 forehead	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 forehead	nmod:poss
20	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kiss	nmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 left	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
23	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 left	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 one	amod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 left	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl			the sight of sight	delighted property	tree rules
2	give	past	mistress	a kiss	each cat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient kiss=Theme
3	leave	past	cats = cat	the room				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent room=Theme one=Attribute
4	come	past · perfect	cats = cat					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sight			sight				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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