The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 15
And she dried Gerda’s eyes, and stuck both her hands in the beautiful warm muff.
Who acts: girl · What happens: dry, stick · To what, where: eyes, hands, beautiful warm muff
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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dried | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gerda | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stuck | cc |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dried | conj |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 hands | cc:preconj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stuck | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 muff | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 muff | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 muff | amod |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 muff | amod |
| 17 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuck | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | girl | Gerda's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | girl not said here | girl's hands | the beautiful warm muff | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in muff=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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