The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 19
How soft its cheeks are, and what tiny feet it has got!
Who acts: cheeks · What happens: be, get · To what, where: tiny feet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 soft | advmod |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 soft | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 soft | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 got | obj |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feet | amod |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soft | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | delight's cheeks | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect · passive | tiny feet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Theme |
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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