The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 45
Even the very pigs’ troughs were of silver too.
Who acts: troughs · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troughs), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 troughs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pigs | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 pigs | advmod |
| 4 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 troughs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 pigs | case |
| 6 | troughs | trough | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 troughs | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silver | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 were | obl |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 were | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 troughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the pigs's troughs not said here | of silver | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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