The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 75
‘What a beautiful flower!’ exclaimed the woman, and she kissed the red and yellow petals; but as she kissed them the flower burst open.
Who acts: beautiful flower, woman, flower · What happens: exclaim, kiss, burst · To what, where: woman, red petals, petals
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful flower, woman, flower), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 flower | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flower | amod |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 petals | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 petals | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yellow | cc |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 red | conj |
| 19 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kissed | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 kissed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kissed | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 kissed | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissed | nsubj |
| 24 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissed | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flower | det |
| 27 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 burst | nsubj |
| 28 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 kissed | advcl |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 burst | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | what beautiful flower | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | woman | the red petals | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | woman | petals = petal | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | the flower | open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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