The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 51
She was a girdle, so delicate and soft and pretty!
Who acts: Hulloa · What happens: be · To what, where: girdle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hulloa), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 girdle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girdle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girdle | det |
| 4 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 delicate | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 delicate | advmod |
| 7 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girdle | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 soft | cc |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 delicate | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretty | cc |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 delicate | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 girdle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hulloa | a girdle | tree rules |
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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