The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 77
One of these boxes contains the proofs of your birth.
Who acts: One · What happens: contain, proof · To what, where: proofs, birth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 boxes | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 boxes | det |
| 4 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 proofs | det |
| 7 | proofs | proof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contains | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 birth | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proofs | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | One of this boxes | the proofs of your birth | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proof | your birth | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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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