The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 76
The little girl threw her arms round his neck; he winked hard with both his eyes; no, she could see nothing in them.
Who acts: little girl, Gerda, girl · What happens: throw, wink, see · To what, where: arms, nothing
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 (little girl, Gerda, girl), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 winked | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 winked | nsubj |
| 12 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 winked | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 eyes | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 winked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 19 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 no | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 threw | conj |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the little girl | girl's arms | round Gerda's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | wink | past | Gerda | with Gerda's eyes; hard property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | could | girl | nothing | in arms = arm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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