The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 26
And she threw herself upon Snowflake (for that was the snow-child’s name) and covered her with kisses.
Who acts: heaven, that · What happens: throw, be, cover · To what, where: heaven
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 (heaven, that), 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 | _ | 3 threw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Snowflake | case |
| 6 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 name | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 name | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 name | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 child | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 child | case |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Snowflake | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 covered | cc |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 covered | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 kisses | case |
| 22 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | heaven | heaven | upon Snowflake | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon snowflake=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | for the snow child's name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | past | heaven not said here | heaven | with kisses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with kiss=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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