The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 49
‘A pitcher of the water of life, a branch of the tree the smell of whose flowers gives eternal beauty, and the talking bird.’
Who acts: smell, flowers · What happens: give, smell · To what, where: eternal beauty
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, flowers), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pitcher | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pitcher | det |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pitcher | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 branch | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 branch | det |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pitcher | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 branch | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smell | det |
| 16 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smell | nmod |
| 20 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tree | acl:relcl |
| 21 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beauty | amod |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bird | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bird | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 26 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bird | compound |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pitcher | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pitcher | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pitcher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the smell of the smell of the smell's flowers's flowers | eternal beauty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smell | the smell of the smell of flowers's flowers's flowers | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/49/