The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 27
Gerda jumped for joy and played there till the sun set behind the tall cherry trees, and then she slept in a beautiful bed with red silk pillows filled with violets, and she slept soundly and dreamed as a queen does on her wedding day.
Who acts: Gerda, queen · What happens: jump, play, set, sleep, fill, dream · To what, where: sun, tall cherry trees, beautiful bed, red silk pillows
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, queen), 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 played | cc |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 played | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sun | acl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 15 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slept | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 slept | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slept | nsubj |
| 21 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bed | amod |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slept | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 pillows | case |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pillows | amod |
| 28 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pillows | compound |
| 29 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 slept | obl |
| 30 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pillows | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 violets | case |
| 32 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 filled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 slept | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 slept | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 slept | nsubj |
| 36 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 37 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 36 slept | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dreamed | cc |
| 39 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 slept | conj |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 does | mark |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 queen | det |
| 42 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 does | nsubj |
| 43 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 dreamed | advcl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 day | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 day | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 day | compound |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 does | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Gerda | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Gerda not said here | there | till the sun | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | set | participle | the sun not said here | the tall cherry trees | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind tree=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Gerda | a beautiful bed | then | with red silk pillows | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||
| 5 | fill | participle | red silk pillows not said here | with violets | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with violet=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | sleep | past | Gerda | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | dream | participle | Gerda not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | do | present | a queen | day | vn act-114-1 «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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