The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 172
‘How beautiful it looks with its tongue stretched out like that!’
Who acts: room · What happens: look, stretch out · To what, where: tongue
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 (room), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tongue | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tongue | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stretched | compound:prt |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 stretched | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | room | with room's tongue | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | room's tongue not said here | like room's tongue | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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