Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 46
Then a smile on her wan features played, and she lifted her pale face and chanted:
Who acts: smile · What happens: play, lift, chant, feature · To what, where: pale face
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 played | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 features | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 features | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 features | amod |
| 7 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smile | nmod |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lifted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lifted | nsubj |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 played | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chanted | cc |
| 17 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lifted | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | a smile on smile's wan features | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | smile | smile's pale face | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chant | participle | smile not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feature | smile | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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