The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 78
At first sight you would not have thought that he was different from a thousand other little boys; but then you noticed that by his side hung the scabbard of a sword, and as the boy grew bigger the scabbard grew bigger too.
Who acts: you, Boy, scabbard · What happens: not think, be, notice, hang, grow · To what, where: sight, scabbard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Boy, scabbard), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sight | advmod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 thought | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | aux |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 different | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 different | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 different | cop |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 boys | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 boys | nsubj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boys | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boys | amod |
| 18 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 different | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 noticed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 noticed | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 noticed | nsubj |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 hung | mark |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod:poss |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hung | obl |
| 28 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 noticed | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 scabbard | det |
| 30 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hung | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sword | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sword | det |
| 33 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scabbard | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 grew | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 grew | cc |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 grew | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 boy | det |
| 38 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 grew | nsubj |
| 39 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 noticed | parataxis |
| 40 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 grew | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 scabbard | det |
| 42 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grew | nsubj |
| 43 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 grew | conj |
| 44 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 grew | xcomp |
| 45 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 grew | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | would · perfect | you | sight | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Boy | from other little boys; different property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | you | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | the scabbard of a sword | by Boy's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scabbard=Theme by side=Destination | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | the boy | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | the scabbard | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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