The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 23
And the wind kissed it and the dew wept tears over it, but the fir-tree did not understand.
Who acts: wind, dew, fir tree · What happens: kiss, weep, not understand · To what, where: life, tears
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 (wind, dew, fir 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 kissed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dew | det |
| 8 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wept | nsubj |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wept | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wept | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 understand | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 16 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fir | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 understand | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 understand | advmod |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kissed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the wind | life | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the dew | tears | life | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 3 | not understand | past · do-support | the fir tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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