The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 148
In fact there was not the smallest event going on over the earth that was hidden from him.
Who acts: smallest event · What happens: not be, go on, hide · To what, where: smallest event, fact, earth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest event), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 event | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 event | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 event | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 event | det |
| 7 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 event | amod |
| 8 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 event | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hidden | aux:pass |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 earth | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hidden | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 event | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the smallest event | fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | gerund | the smallest event not said here | the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · passive | the earth | from Simon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary |
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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