The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 103
They stopped near the Snow-man, and looked at the glistening trees.
Who acts: diamonds · What happens: stop, look, glisten
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diamonds), 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 | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 trees | amod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | diamonds = diamond | near the Snow man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | past | diamonds = diamond not said here | at the glistening trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glisten | gerund | 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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