The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 188
Last of all walked Delicia, who was so beautiful that it was nothing short of marvellous.
Who acts: Last, Delicia, robe · What happens: walk, be · To what, where: Delicia, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Last, Delicia, robe), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Last | nmod |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Delicia | amod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 nothing | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | cop |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 beautiful | conj |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nothing | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 marvellous | case |
| 17 | marvellous | marvellous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 short | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Last of all | Delicia | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delicia=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Delicia | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | robe | nothing | tree rules |
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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