The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 80
Out of all the ten or eleven, there was only one who gave his parents any trouble, and this was a big lazy boy whose name was Tiidu.
Who acts: this, name, Tiidu · What happens: be, give, name · To what, where: trouble, parents, big lazy boy, Tiidu
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, name, Tiidu), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Out | fixed |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | compound |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 eleven | cc |
| 7 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ten | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 gave | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | iobj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 boy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 boy | cc |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 boy | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 boy | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boy | amod |
| 25 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boy | amod |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trouble | appos |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Tiidu | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Tiidu | cop |
| 30 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 boy | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | out all ten one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | any trouble | man's parents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | a big lazy boy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Tiidu's name | Tiidu | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Tiidu | nom name «communication 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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