The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 113
‘Now it is winter out-doors,’ thought the fir-tree.
Who acts: ray · What happens: be, think · To what, where: winter, doors, fir tree
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ray), 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 winter | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 winter | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 winter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 winter | cop |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 out | punct |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 winter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 winter | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 winter | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fir | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ray | winter | doors | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the fir tree | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=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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