The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 11
And bright flowers on slender stem Gaze up at her as she passes Brushing lightly through the grasses.
Who acts: bright flowers, Princess · What happens: gaze up, pass, brush · To what, where: grasses
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright flowers, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Gaze | cc |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flowers | amod |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Gaze | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stem | case |
| 5 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stem | amod |
| 6 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flowers | nmod |
| 7 | Gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 Gaze | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Gaze | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passes | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passes | nsubj |
| 13 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Gaze | advcl |
| 14 | Brushing | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 passes | xcomp |
| 15 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 14 Brushing | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 grasses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grasses | det |
| 18 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Brushing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze up | infinitive | bright flowers on slender stem | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | present | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | brush | gerund | Princess not said here | the grasses | lightly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through grass=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/11/