The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 110
Some people said there was very little in him beyond this, but that was an idea they found reason to change in the course of time.
Who acts: people, that · What happens: say, be, find, change · To what, where: idea, reason, course · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, that), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 little | obl |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 idea | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 idea | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 idea | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 idea | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 idea | det |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 idea | acl:relcl |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 change | mark |
| 22 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 reason | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 course | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 course | det |
| 25 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 change | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 course | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some people | beyond this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a idea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | past | people | reason | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic | ||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | people not said here | reason not said here | the course of time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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