The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 5
Suddenly Ivan’s face brightened, and, looking at his wife, he said, ‘Wife, why shouldn’t we make a snow woman too?’
Who acts: face, we · What happens: brighten, look, say, not make · To what, where: snow woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (face, we), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 brightened | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ivan | case |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brightened | nsubj |
| 5 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brightened | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wife | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wife | punct |
| 18 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 make | advmod |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 make | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wife | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woman | compound |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 make | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brightened | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brighten | participle | Ivan's face | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at face's wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | face | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not make | should | we | a snow woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Product |
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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