The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 58
The elder of the two was a fine handsome creature, who had a pleasant manner and made many friends.
Who acts: elder, fine handsome creature · What happens: be, have, make · To what, where: fine handsome creature, pleasant manner, many friends
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, fine handsome creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elder | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 elder | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 15 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manner | amod |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the elder of the two | a fine handsome creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a fine handsome creature | a pleasant manner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a fine handsome creature not said here | many friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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