The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 52
So the old woman’s heart melted, and she agreed to hide him.
Who acts: heart · What happens: melt, agree, hide · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 melted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melted | nsubj |
| 7 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 agreed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agreed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 agreed | nsubj |
| 11 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 melted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hide | mark |
| 13 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 agreed | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hide | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past | the old woman's heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | heart | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | heart not said here | son | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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