The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 102
But though she was very pretty, with a skin as white as a gull’s breast, for which her neighbours gave her the name of the Seagull, he did not think about her at all, for he was dreaming of the green eyes of the Princess.
Who acts: girl, neighbours, John · What happens: be, give, not think, dream, name · To what, where: name, girl, all, Seagull
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, neighbours, John), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 pretty | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 pretty | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pretty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pretty | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skin | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pretty | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 white | case |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skin | amod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gull | det |
| 15 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 gull | case |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 gave | obl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pretty | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Seagull | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Seagull | det |
| 29 | Seagull | seagull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 name | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 think | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 think | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 think | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 think | advmod |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gave | conj |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 think | obl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 think | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dreaming | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 dreaming | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 dreaming | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 dreaming | aux |
| 43 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 think | advcl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 eyes | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 eyes | det |
| 46 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 eyes | amod |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 dreaming | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Princess | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Princess | det |
| 50 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 eyes | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | girl's neighbours | the name of the Seagull | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme for which=Asset | |||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | John | all | about girl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic | |||
| 4 | dream | past · progressive | John | of the green eyes of the Princess | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | the Seagull | nom name «communication 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 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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