The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 208
Snowdrop, who dwells with the seven little men, Is as fair as you, as fair again.’
Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: dwell, be
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 (Snowdrop), 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 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwells | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dwells | nsubj |
| 4 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Snowdrop | acl:relcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwells | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snowdrop | punct |
| 11 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fair | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fair | advmod |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fair | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fair | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 fair | case |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fair | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 fair | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fair | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | Snowdrop | with the seven little men | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Snowdrop | as you; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Snowdrop not said here | again | 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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