The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 22
The snow-child bent its head as if it had been really alive.
Who acts: snow child, head · What happens: bend, be · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow child, head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 child | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bent | nsubj |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bent | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 alive | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 alive | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alive | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alive | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 alive | cop |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 alive | advmod |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bent | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle | the snow child | surprise's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | head | alive property | tree rules |
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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