The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 1
Presently they came to a town where were seven sisters, as young and as lovely as anyone could wish.
Who acts: they, anyone · What happens: come, be, wish · To what, where: town, seven sisters
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, anyone), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sisters | advmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sisters | cop |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sisters | nummod |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 town | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 young | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 young | case |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lovely | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 lovely | advmod |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 young | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wish | mark |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wish | aux |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lovely | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | they | a town | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | seven sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | could | anyone | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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