The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 34
Gerda kissed the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home, and with them came the thought of little Kay.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: kiss, come, think · To what, where: roses, thought, lovely roses, little Kay
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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roses | det |
| 4 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roses | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 roses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roses | det |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roses | amod |
| 10 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roses | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thought | det |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kay | case |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Kay | amod |
| 22 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Gerda | the roses and thought of the lovely roses at home | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Gerda not said here | the thought of little Kay | with roses = rose | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme | |||
| 3 | think | the lovely roses at home | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | think | little Kay | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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