The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 95
A regiment of gigantic snowflakes came against her, but they melted when they touched her, and she went on with fresh courage.
Who acts: regiment, snowflakes, Gerda · What happens: come, melt, touch, go on · To what, where: Gerda
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 (regiment, snowflakes, Gerda), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 regiment | det |
| 2 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 snowflakes | case |
| 4 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snowflakes | amod |
| 5 | snowflakes | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 regiment | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 melted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 melted | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 melted | nsubj |
| 12 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 touched | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 melted | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 courage | case |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 courage | amod |
| 24 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a regiment of gigantic snowflakes | against Gerda | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Location | ||||
| 2 | melt | past | snowflakes = snowflake | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | snowflakes = snowflake | Gerda | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | Gerda | with fresh courage | vn function-105.2.1 «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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