The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 93
And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining.
Who acts: forehead · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: snowy mountain
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 (forehead), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mountain | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 3 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mountain | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 6 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grand | punct |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shining | cc |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grand | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | princess's forehead | a snowy mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | princess's forehead not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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