The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 130
The Snow-queen might come home now; his release--the word ‘Love’--stood written in sparkling ice.
Who acts: Snow queen · What happens: come, write · To what, where: release, sparkling ice
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 2 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Snow | punct |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 release | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 release | nmod:poss |
| 11 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 word | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 release | appos |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Love | punct |
| 16 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | appos |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Love | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 come | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ice | case |
| 22 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ice | amod |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 written | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | might | the Snow queen | Kay's release | now | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | write | past · passive | sparkling ice | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in ice=Destination |
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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