The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 52
Her only pleasure was to lie amid the green willows near some sparkling stream.
Who acts: only pleasure, gayer · What happens: be, sparkle, please
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 (only pleasure, gayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1670): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleasure | amod |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lie | mark |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 10 willows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 willows | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 willows | amod |
| 10 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lie | obl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 stream | det |
| 13 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stream | amod |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 willows | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gayer's only pleasure | amid the green willows near some sparkling stream; lie property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | please | gayer | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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