The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 33
Then she sat down and cried, but her tears fell just on the spot where a rose bush had sunk, and when her warm tears watered the earth, the bush came up in full bloom just as it had been before.
Who acts: many, tears, warm tears, bush, earth · What happens: sit down, cry, fall, sink, water, come up · To what, where: spot, rose bush, earth, full bloom
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 (many, tears, warm tears, bush), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 sunk | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bush | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bush | compound |
| 19 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sunk | aux |
| 21 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 watered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 watered | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 watered | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tears | nmod:poss |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tears | amod |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 watered | nsubj |
| 28 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 watered | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bush | det |
| 33 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 bloom | case |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bloom | amod |
| 38 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 39 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 before | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 before | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 before | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 before | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 before | cop |
| 44 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | many | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | many not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | many's tears | the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location | ||||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect · passive | a rose bush | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | water | past | many's warm tears | the earth | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination | ||||
| 6 | come up | past | the bush | full bloom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bloom=Location | ||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | earth | before property | 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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