The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 67
The snow-flake grew larger and larger till it took the form of a maiden, dressed in finest white gauze.
Who acts: snow flake, it · What happens: grow, take, dress · To what, where: form, finest white gauze
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 (snow flake, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flake | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flake | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | flake | flake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 larger | cc |
| 8 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 larger | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 took | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 maiden | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 took | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 gauze | case |
| 20 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 gauze | amod |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gauze | amod |
| 22 | gauze | gauze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dressed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the snow flake | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | the form | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | finest white gauze | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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