The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 19
The beautiful sunny hair rippled and shone round the dear little face, which was so soft and sweet.
Who acts: dear little face · What happens: ripple, shine, be · To what, where: beautiful sunny hair
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 (dear little face), 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 hair | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 3 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hair | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shone | cc |
| 7 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rippled | conj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soft | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 soft | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soft | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 soft | advmod |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sweet | cc |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soft | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripple | participle | the beautiful sunny hair not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shine | participle | round the dear little face | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the dear little face | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the dear little face not said here | 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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