The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 52

Are they really pearls?’ he asked, falling on his knees also, and looking up at Tephany he perceived others still more beautiful rolling down the girl’s cheeks.

Who acts: pearls, knees, farm · What happens: be, pearl, ask, fall, look up, perceive · To what, where: knees, others, cheeks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, knees, farm), 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	Are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pearls	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 pearls	advmod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Are	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Are	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Are	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 knees	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knees	nmod:poss
13	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	obl
14	also	also	ADV	_	10 falling	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perceived	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 perceived	cc
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 perceived	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 looking	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Tephany	case
20	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 perceived	nsubj
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 perceived	obj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 beautiful	advmod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 perceived	xcomp
27	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 beautiful	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	32 cheeks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cheeks	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 girl	case
32	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rolling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	pearls				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pearl		knees = knee				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	farm				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fall	gerund	farm not said here		farm's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
5	look up	gerund	farm not said here			at Tephany	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tephany=Theme
6	perceive	past	farm	others		beautiful property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
7	roll down	gerund	farm not said here	the girl's cheeks			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=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 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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