The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 30
Once upon a time there lived a cat of marvellous beauty, with a skin as soft and shining as silk, and wise green eyes, that could see even in the dark.
Who acts: wise green eyes · What happens: live, shine, see · To what, where: cat, dark
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise green eyes), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beauty | amod |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cat | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skin | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 skin | det |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 soft | case |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 skin | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shining | cc |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 soft | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 silk | case |
| 21 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shining | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 24 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 see | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 see | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lived | conj |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 dark | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dark | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dark | det |
| 34 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a cat of marvellous beauty | there | time | with a skin as soft; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cat=Location | ||
| 2 | shine | gerund | as silk | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | could | wise green eyes | the dark | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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