The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 34
She noticed everything, and could learn a lesson in a moment.
Who acts: Snowflake · What happens: notice, learn · To what, where: everything, lesson
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), 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 | 2 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 noticed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learn | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 learn | aux |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 noticed | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lesson | det |
| 9 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Snowflake | everything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | learn | could | a lesson | moment | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/16/34/