The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 61
Every leaf was alive, and every flower was a beautiful girl’s head, some with dark and shining eyes, others with wonderful blue ones.
Who acts: leaf, flower · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: head
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 (leaf, flower), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alive | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | cop |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 head | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 head | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 head | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 some | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 head | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shining | cc |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 others | punct |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eyes | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ones | case |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ones | amod |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ones | amod |
| 27 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 others | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | every leaf | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | every flower | a beautiful girl's head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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