The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 142
But Gerda patted her cheeks and asked after the prince and princess.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: pat, ask · To what, where: cheeks
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 (Gerda), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 patted | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 patted | nsubj |
| 3 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 patted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 patted | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 princess | cc |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | past | Gerda | Gerda's cheeks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Gerda not said here | after the prince and princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 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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