The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 30
She wept and her tears were pearls; she smiled and her lips shed roses.
Who acts: woman, tears, lips · What happens: weep, be, smile, shed · To what, where: pearls, roses
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, tears, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pearls | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pearls | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pearls | cop |
| 7 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wept | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 smiled | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smiled | nsubj |
| 10 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shed | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shed | nsubj |
| 14 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smiled | conj |
| 15 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | woman | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | woman's tears | pearls | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shed | past | woman's lips | roses | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Source |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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