The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 159
Her heart was cheered by the sight of the flowers and the soft cool grass, and she sat down and rested for a little.
Who acts: sight, mother · What happens: cheer, sit down, rest, sight · To what, where: heart, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, mother), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cheered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cheered | aux:pass |
| 4 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cheered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flowers | det |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grass | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grass | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 14 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flowers | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cheered | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rested | cc |
| 22 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sat | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 little | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rested | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past · passive | the sight of the flowers and the soft cool grass | mother's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | mother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | participle | mother not said here | for a little | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | the flowers and the soft cool grass | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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