The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 92
Then he set Gerda down and kissed her mouth, and great big tears ran down his cheeks, and then he ran back.
Who acts: glass, great big tears · What happens: set down, kiss, run down, run back · To what, where: Gerda, mouth, 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 (glass, great big tears), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tears | amod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tears | amod |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ran | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 ran | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past | glass | Gerda | then | down property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gerda=Result | ||
| 2 | kiss | past | glass not said here | Gerda's mouth | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | great big tears | glass's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run back | past | glass | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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