The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 246
‘Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land’s most fair?’
Who acts: Mirror · What happens: hang
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mirror | punct |
| 2 | Mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mirror | punct |
| 4 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mirror | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hanging | punct |
| 6 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Mirror | acl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hanging | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fair | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fair | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 fair | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 land | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fair | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 land | case |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 fair | advmod |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 fair | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | Mirror and mirror not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «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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