The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 78
And one of her tears remained as a dewdrop and sparkled on the little blue flower.
Who acts: one · What happens: remain, sparkle · To what, where: little blue flower
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 remained | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dewdrop | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dewdrop | det |
| 9 | dewdrop | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sparkled | cc |
| 11 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 remained | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 flower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flower | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sparkled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | one of pursuit's tears | as a dewdrop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | one of pursuit's tears not said here | the little blue flower | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location |
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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