The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 28
‘She was probably travelling to Lapland, where there is always ice and snow.
Who acts: queen, travelling · What happens: travel, be · To what, where: Lapland, 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 (queen, travelling), 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 | _ | 5 travelling | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 travelling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelling | aux |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 travelling | advmod |
| 5 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ice | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Lapland | case |
| 7 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 travelling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 is | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ice | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 ice | advmod |
| 13 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snow | cc |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ice | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past · progressive | queen | Lapland | probably property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lapland=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | present | travelling | ice and snow | always property | tree rules |
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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