The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 64
Cerisette was so tall that the dress of the princess did not reach her ankles, and so thin that her bones showed through the stuff.
Who acts: Cerisette, dress, bones · What happens: be, not reach, show · To what, where: ankles, stuff
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Cerisette, dress, bones), 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 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tall | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 tall | advmod |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dress | nmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reach | advmod |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tall | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thin | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thin | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 thin | advmod |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tall | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 showed | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bones | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 showed | nsubj |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thin | advcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 stuff | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stuff | det |
| 26 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cerisette | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not reach | past · do-support | the dress of the princess | princess's ankles | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | Cerisette not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | show | past | princess's bones | the stuff | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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: «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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