The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 130
She could see him smiling as he did when they were at home under the rose trees!
Who acts: Gerda, Kay, eyes · What happens: see, smile, do, be · To what, where: Kay, home
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Kay, eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smiling | advcl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 home | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 home | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trees | compound |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 home | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Gerda | Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Gerda not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Kay | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | eyes = eye | home | under the rose trees | tree rules |
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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