The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 23
She breathed on them, and all except we two died.
Who acts: queen, two · What happens: breathe, die
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 (queen, two), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 breathed | nsubj |
| 2 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 breathed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 two | nsubj |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 we | case |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 all | nmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 breathed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | past | queen | on Coo | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | die | past | two | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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