The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 7
When he saw them all so beautiful and so gay he embraced them tenderly, but gave Miranda more kisses than either of the others.
Who acts: eldest, gay · What happens: see, embrace, give · To what, where: Princesses, more kisses, Miranda
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, gay), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 all | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 embraced | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 embraced | advmod |
| 10 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embraced | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embraced | nsubj |
| 12 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embraced | obj |
| 14 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 embraced | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 kisses | amod |
| 20 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 either | case |
| 22 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 kisses | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 others | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 others | det |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 either | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | eldest = eld | Princesses = princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | gay | Princesses = princess | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | give | past | eldest = eld not said here | more kisses | Miranda | than either | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent miranda=Recipient kiss=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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