The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 22
And then she looked at herself in a mirror, and turned away quickly with tears in her eyes from the doleful sight.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: look, turn away · To what, where: mirror
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (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 | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mirror | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mirror | det |
| 9 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tears | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 22 | doleful | doleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sight | amod |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Princess | a mirror | then | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme | ||
| 2 | turn away | past | Princess not said here | with tears in Princess's eyes from the doleful sight; away, quickly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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