The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 109
She possessed a magic mirror, and when she used to stand before it gazing at her own reflection and ask:
Who acts: wife, mirror · What happens: possess, use, stand, gaze, ask · To what, where: magic mirror
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, mirror), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 possessed | nsubj |
| 2 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mirror | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mirror | amod |
| 5 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 possessed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 used | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 used | nsubj |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 possessed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | xcomp |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 gazing | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gazing | nsubj |
| 15 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stand | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 reflection | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reflection | amod |
| 19 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gazing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ask | cc |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stand | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past | wife | a magic mirror | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mirror=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past | wife | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | mirror | at wife's own reflection | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reflection=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | wife not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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