The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 27
And the loose snow fell away from Snowflake as an egg shell does from an egg, and it was a little girl whom Marie held in her arms.
Who acts: loose snow, egg shell, shell, Marie · What happens: fall away, do, be, hold · To what, where: Snowflake, egg, little girl, arms
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 (loose snow, egg shell, shell, Marie), 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 | _ | 5 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snow | det |
| 3 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snow | amod |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Snowflake | case |
| 8 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 does | mark |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shell | det |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shell | compound |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 egg | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 egg | det |
| 16 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 girl | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 girl | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 girl | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 held | obj |
| 25 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 held | nsubj |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 girl | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 arms | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 held | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall away | past | the loose snow | Snowflake | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | present | a egg shell | a egg | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | shell | a little girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | Marie | a little girl | Snowflake's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in arm=Location |
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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