The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 108
Then she saw in tile distance a light that twinkled between the trees.
Who acts: tree, light · What happens: see, twinkle · To what, where: light, trees
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, light), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | compound |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 light | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 twinkled | nsubj |
| 10 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 light | acl:relcl |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 twinkled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | tree | a light | then | in tile distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | twinkle | past | a light | the trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Location |
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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