The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 22
A thousand names were proposed and rejected for a thousand silly reasons.
What happens: propose, reject · To what, where: thousand names
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 names | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 names | nummod |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 proposed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 proposed | aux:pass |
| 5 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rejected | cc |
| 7 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 proposed | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 reasons | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 reasons | nummod |
| 11 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reasons | amod |
| 12 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rejected | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past · passive | a thousand names | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reject | participle | for thousand silly reasons | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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