The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 5
They looked at each other, they looked at their beds, which were of the finest flax covered over with leaves and moss.
Who acts: girls, beds · What happens: look, be, cover over · To what, where: finest flax
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, beds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 beds | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flax | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 flax | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 flax | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flax | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flax | det |
| 17 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 flax | amod |
| 18 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beds | nmod |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 flax | acl |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 covered | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 moss | cc |
| 24 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaves | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | girls = girl | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | girls = girl | at girls's beds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girls's beds | of the finest flax | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover over | participle | the finest flax not said here | with leaves and moss; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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