The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 87
Her cheeks flushed, her eyes sparkled, and it was plain that she loved dancing better than anything else.
Who acts: cheeks, eyes, beautiful, hair · What happens: flush, sparkle, be, love, dance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, eyes, beautiful, hair), 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 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flushed | nsubj |
| 3 | flushed | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sparkled | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sparkled | nsubj |
| 7 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flushed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plain | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plain | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 plain | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plain | cop |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sparkled | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 loved | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plain | advcl |
| 16 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 loved | xcomp |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 dancing | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 anything | case |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 better | obl |
| 20 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 anything | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flush | past | hair's cheeks | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sparkle | past | hair's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | beautiful | plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | hair | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | dance not said to happen | gerund | hair not said here | good property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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