The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 17
Formerly he had been a merry fellow, fond of a joke, and in the art of cooking had no equal in the town.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, have · To what, where: equal, art
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 9 fond | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fond | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fond | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fond | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fond | punct |
| 9 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 joke | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 joke | det |
| 12 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fond | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 art | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 art | det |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cooking | case |
| 19 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 art | nmod |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fond | parataxis |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 equal | det |
| 22 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Peter | of a joke; fond, formerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | no equal | the art of cooking | in the town | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equal=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 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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