The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 129
In the day he slept at the Snow-queen’s feet.
Who acts: moon · What happens: sleep · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 8 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 queen | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Snow | punct |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slept | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | moon | the Snow queen's feet | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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