The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 60

Often at midnight she flies through the streets, and peeps in at all the windows, and then they freeze in such pretty patterns and look like flowers.’

Who acts: grandmother, windows · What happens: fly, peep, freeze, look · To what, where: streets, such pretty patterns

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 (grandmother, windows), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	3 midnight	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flies	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 peeps	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 peeps	cc
11	peeps	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flies	conj
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 peeps	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 windows	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 windows	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 windows	det
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 peeps	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 freeze	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 freeze	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 freeze	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 freeze	nsubj
21	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flies	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 patterns	case
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 patterns	amod
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 patterns	amod
25	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 freeze	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
27	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 freeze	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 look	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	grandmother	the streets	midnight		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through street=Location
2	peep	present	grandmother not said here			at all windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	freeze	present	windows = window	such pretty patterns	then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look	present	windows = window not said here			like flowers	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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