The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 92
And the tears ran down her cheeks and splashed on to the rose-tree roots.
Who acts: tears · What happens: run down, splash on · To what, where: cheeks
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (tears), 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 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tears | det |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 splashed | cc |
| 9 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 splashed | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 roots | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roots | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roots | compound |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 splashed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | the tears | Princess's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | splash on | participle | the tears not said here | to the tree roots | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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