The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 139
She can easily see it, for she shines on all things.’
Who acts: woman · What happens: see, shine · To what, where: moon, things
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shines | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 shines | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shines | nsubj |
| 9 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shines | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | woman | moon | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shine | present | woman | all things | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thing=Location |
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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