The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 10
The water was running down from her hair and her dress into the points of her shoes and out at the heels again.
Who acts: water · What happens: run down, point · To what, where: hair, shoes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 running | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dress | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hair | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 points | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 points | det |
| 14 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 running | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shoes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 points | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heels | cc |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 heels | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 heels | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heels | det |
| 22 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shoes | conj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 running | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past · progressive | the water | water's hair and water's dress | again | into the points of water's shoes and the heels result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into point=Result | ||
| 2 | point | water's shoes and the heels | nom point «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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