The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 17
Creeping softly to the door, he peeped through it, and beheld her lying quietly, with a crown of gold and pearls upon her head, her wrinkles all gone, and her face, which was whiter than the snow, as fresh as that of a girl of fourteen.
Who acts: prince, face · What happens: creep, peep, behold, lie, pearl, be · To what, where: door, noise, gold
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, face), 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 | Creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 peeped | advcl |
| 2 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 1 Creeping | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Creeping | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Creeping | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peeped | nsubj |
| 8 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peeped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beheld | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beheld | cc |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peeped | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | obj |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 beheld | xcomp |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 lying | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crown | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 crown | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crown | det |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crown | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pearls | cc |
| 24 | pearls | pearl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beheld | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pearls | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gone | punct |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wrinkles | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gone | nsubj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 gone | advmod |
| 32 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pearls | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 whiter | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 whiter | cc |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 face | nmod:poss |
| 36 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 whiter | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 whiter | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 whiter | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 whiter | cop |
| 40 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 gone | conj |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 snow | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 snow | det |
| 43 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 whiter | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fresh | punct |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 fresh | case |
| 46 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 whiter | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 that | case |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 fresh | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 girl | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 girl | det |
| 51 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 that | nmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 fourteen | case |
| 53 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 girl | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | prince not said here | the door | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 2 | peep | past | prince | through door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | prince not said here | noise | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | prince not said here | with a crown of gold; quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pearl | present | prince not said here | upon noise's head | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | noise's face | than the snow; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | noise's face not said here | as that | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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