The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 82
Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into the blue ribbon which girls always wear in that part of the country.
Who acts: Blushing, girls · What happens: blush, go, stick, wear · To what, where: feather, blue ribbon, part
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blushing, girls), 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 | Blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 pleasure | case |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blushing | obl |
| 4 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pleasure | appos |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stuck | cc |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feather | det |
| 10 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 ribbon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ribbon | det |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ribbon | amod |
| 14 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wear | obj |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 wear | advmod |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ribbon | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 part | det |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wear | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | gerund | with pleasure | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Blushing | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | past | Blushing not said here | the feather | the blue ribbon | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme into ribbon=Destination | |||
| 4 | wear | present | girls | the blue ribbon | that part of the country | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=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 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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