The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 107
The girl laughed, and nodded to the Snow-man, and then they both danced away over the snow.
Who acts: girl, ‘ · What happens: laugh, nod, dance away · To what, where: Snow man, snow
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 (girl, ‘), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nodded | cc |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Snow | punct |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 danced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 danced | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 danced | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 danced | nsubj |
| 16 | both | both | ADV | _ | 17 danced | advmod |
| 17 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 danced | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 snow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snow | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 danced | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the girl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nod | past | the girl not said here | the Snow man | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | dance away | past | ‘ | the snow | then | away, both property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=Location |
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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