The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 86
As she bent over them, enjoying their delicious scent, a soft voice, that seemed to rustle among the leaves, said:
Who acts: Princess, soft voice, legs · What happens: bend, enjoy, seem, rustle, say, scent · To what, where: delicious scent, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, soft voice, legs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 bent | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enjoying | punct |
| 7 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bent | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 scent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scent | amod |
| 10 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enjoying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scent | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 voice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rustle | mark |
| 19 | rustle | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 leaves | det |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rustle | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Princess | over legs = leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | gerund | Princess not said here | legs's delicious scent and a soft voice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a soft voice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | rustle | to-infinitive | a soft voice not said here | the leaves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | scent | legs = leg | nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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