The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
It was summer in the land of Denmark, and though for most of the year the country looks flat and ugly, it was beautiful now.
Who acts: Duckling, summer · What happens: be, look · To what, where: summer, land
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duckling, summer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summer | cop |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summer | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Denmark | case |
| 8 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 land | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looks | cc |
| 11 | though | though | ADV | _ | 19 looks | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 most | case |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 looks | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 most | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 year | appos |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 summer | acl:relcl |
| 20 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looks | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ugly | cc |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flat | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looks | conj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Duckling | summer | the land of Denmark | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present | summer not said here | for most of the year; flat, though property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Duckling | now | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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