The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 92
They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.
Who acts: Turks, thoughts, princess · What happens: be, swim, think · To what, where: beautiful dark lakes
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 (Turks, thoughts, princess), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lakes | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lakes | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lakes | amod |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lakes | amod |
| 5 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 swam | obl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swam | nsubj |
| 10 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lakes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 swam | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 mermaids | case |
| 13 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swam | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Turks = turk | beautiful dark lakes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | princess's thoughts | beautiful dark lakes | like mermaids; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | think | princess | nom thought «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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