The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 145

And then it thought of a pretty little birch-tree that grew out in the wood, and seemed to the fir-tree a real princess, and a very beautiful one too.

Who acts: many, pretty little birch tree · What happens: think, grow out, seem · To what, where: wood, real princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many, pretty little birch tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 birch	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tree	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 grew	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
23	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 fir	punct
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 princess	amod
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 one	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 one	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	xcomp
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 one	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	many			then	of a pretty little birch tree	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow out	past	a pretty little birch tree		the wood			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
3	seem	past		a real princess			to the fir tree	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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