The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 146
‘His tame sweetheart is a widow and hops about with a bit of black crape round her leg.
Who acts: tame sweetheart, widow · What happens: be, hop about · To what, where: widow, leg
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 (tame sweetheart, widow), 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 | _ | 7 widow | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sweetheart | amod |
| 4 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 widow | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 widow | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 widow | det |
| 7 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hops | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hops | cc |
| 9 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 hops | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hops | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crape | case |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crape | amod |
| 16 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bit | nmod |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 leg | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 leg | nmod:poss |
| 19 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hops | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | crow's tame sweetheart | a widow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hop about | present | a widow | widow's leg | with a bit of black crape; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round leg=Trajectory |
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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