The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 132
She _did_ see it, and thought it looked so tempting that she greedily ate it up and at once died.
Who acts: wedding, cake · What happens: do, see, think, look, tempt, eat up · To what, where: cake
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, cake), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ate | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ate | nsubj |
| 16 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 17 ate | advmod |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tempting | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ate | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 ate | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 died | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 died | obl |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ate | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | wedding | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | wedding not said here | cake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | wedding not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | cake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | tempt | gerund | cake not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | eat up | past | wedding | cake | greedily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 7 | die | past | wedding not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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