The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 51
But then, nobody knew that she had a buffalo for a servant.
Who acts: nobody, girl · What happens: know, have · To what, where: buffalo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 knew | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 knew | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 then | punct |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 buffalo | det |
| 10 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 servant | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 servant | det |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buffalo | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | nobody | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | a buffalo | for a servant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=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 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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