The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 11
Snow-white and Rose-red kept their mother’s cottage so beautifully clean and neat that it was a pleasure to go into it.
Who acts: Rose · What happens: keep, be, go · To what, where: cottage, pleasure
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rose), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | obl |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snow | punct |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 5 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 red | punct |
| 7 | red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rose | flat |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 12 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 clean | advmod |
| 14 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 15 clean | advmod |
| 15 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 neat | cc |
| 17 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clean | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 pleasure | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pleasure | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleasure | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pleasure | det |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kept | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Rose | roses's mother's cottage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Rose not said here | a pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Rose not said here | cottage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location |
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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