The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 14
She walked in solitude and melancholy, and never even thought of looking at her own image in the polished glass walls that were on every side of her, although she was the prettiest creature anyone could wish to see.
Who acts: girl, polished glass walls · What happens: walk, not think, look, polish, be, see · To what, where: solitude, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, polished glass walls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 solitude | case |
| 4 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 melancholy | cc |
| 6 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 solitude | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 thought | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 walked | conj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 image | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 image | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 image | amod |
| 17 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 walls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 walls | det |
| 20 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 walls | amod |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walls | compound |
| 22 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looking | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 side | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 side | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 side | det |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walls | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
| 31 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 39 wish | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wish | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 creature | det |
| 35 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 creature | amod |
| 36 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 37 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wish | aux |
| 39 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 see | mark |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wish | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | girl | solitude and melancholy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in solitude=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | participle | girl not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | girl not said here | in the polished glass walls; at girl's own image | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at image=Theme | ||||
| 4 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | the polished glass walls | every side | of girl | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | could · past | girl | wish property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | image | girl | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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