The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 53
Then there was a widow, who glowed with love for me.
Who acts: widow · What happens: be, glow
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 (widow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glowed | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 glowed | nsubj |
| 8 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 widow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 glowed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a widow | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | glow | past | a widow | with love; for me | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with love=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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