The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 56
This was the greatest holiday of the year, when the young girls met in the woods to dance and play.
Who acts: This, young girls · What happens: be, meet, dance, play · To what, where: greatest holiday, woods
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 (This, young girls), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 holiday | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 holiday | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 holiday | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 holiday | amod |
| 5 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holiday | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 met | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girls | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girls | amod |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 holiday | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 woods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woods | det |
| 17 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dance | mark |
| 19 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 met | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 play | cc |
| 21 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dance | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 holiday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the greatest holiday | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the young girls | the woods | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | the young girls not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | the young girls not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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