The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 32
She was their doll, and they were continually inventing new dresses for her, and teaching her songs or playing with her.
Who acts: Snowflake, children · What happens: be, invent, teach, play, sing · To what, where: doll, new dresses, songs
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 (Snowflake, children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doll | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doll | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 doll | nmod:poss |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inventing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inventing | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inventing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 inventing | aux |
| 9 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 10 inventing | advmod |
| 10 | inventing | invent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 doll | acl |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dresses | amod |
| 12 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inventing | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inventing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 teaching | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 teaching | cc |
| 17 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 inventing | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 songs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 teaching | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 playing | cc |
| 21 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 teaching | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 playing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Snowflake | children's doll | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · progressive | children = child | new dresses | for Snowflake; continually property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dress=Result for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | gerund | children = child not said here | Snowflake's songs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | children = child not said here | with Snowflake | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | sing | Snowflake | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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