The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 16
“Beautiful pinks, you are so sweet and so pretty, you are the only comfort I have left.
Who acts: Beautiful pinks, you, Felicia · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: only comfort
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beautiful pinks, you, Felicia), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pinks | punct |
| 2 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pinks | amod |
| 3 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sweet | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pinks | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sweet | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sweet | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sweet | advmod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretty | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 pretty | advmod |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 sweet | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comfort | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 comfort | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 comfort | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 comfort | det |
| 16 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 comfort | amod |
| 17 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sweet | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 comfort | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Beautiful pinks | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | the only comfort | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | Felicia | the only comfort not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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