The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 89
With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with her friends Snowflake had melted away, and a little soft haze floating upwards was all that remained of her.
Who acts: that, Snowflake, little soft haze · What happens: sweep, run, melt away, float, remain · To what, where: friends
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 (that, Snowflake, little soft haze), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 breath | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 breath | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 breath | amod |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flame | case |
| 6 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breath | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 swept | nsubj |
| 8 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 13 ran | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nmod:poss |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 ran | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swept | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ran | obl |
| 17 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 melted | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 melted | aux |
| 19 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 friends | acl:relcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 melted | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 haze | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 haze | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 haze | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 haze | amod |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 haze | amod |
| 26 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 haze | acl |
| 28 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 27 floating | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 all | cop |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 haze | appos |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 remained | nsubj |
| 32 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 haze | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 remained | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | that | with the first breath of flame | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Snowflake | with Snowflake's friends | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with friend=Material | ||||
| 3 | melt away | past · perfect | Snowflake | Snowflake's friends not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient friend=Result | |||
| 4 | float | gerund | a little soft haze not said here | upwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | that | of Snowflake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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