The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 49
She had to rest again, and there on the snow in front of her was a large crow.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: have, rest, be · To what, where: front, large crow
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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rest | mark |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 rest | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rest | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 crow | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 crow | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 crow | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crow | amod |
| 19 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | front and a large crow; there | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Gerda not said here | a large crow | of Gerda | 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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