The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 91
The fresh air soon made her open her pretty eyes, and there before her stood the Queen of the Woods, looking as charming as ever.
Who acts: fresh air, Felicia · What happens: make, open, stand, look · To what, where: Felicia, pretty eyes, Queen
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 (fresh air, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 air | amod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stood | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 stood | mark |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Woods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Woods | det |
| 21 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Queen | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stood | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 charming | case |
| 25 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 looking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the fresh air | Felicia | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | infinitive | Felicia not said here | Felicia's pretty eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Felicia | the Queen of the Woods | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | Felicia not said here | as charming | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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