The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 139
She pushed aside the curtain, and saw a brown neck.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: push, see · To what, where: curtain, brown neck
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), 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 | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curtain | det |
| 5 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neck | amod |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Gerda | the curtain | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Gerda not said here | a brown neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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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