The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 89
She was lying on the sofa asleep, and was so beautiful that the young merchant had to kiss her.
Who acts: princess, young merchant · What happens: lie, be, have, kiss · To what, where: sofa, princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, young merchant), 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 | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sofa | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sofa | det |
| 6 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchant | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 merchant | amod |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kiss | mark |
| 19 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kiss | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | princess | the sofa | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the young merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | the young merchant not said here | princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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