The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 10
The yard is full already; and did you ever see anything quite as ugly as that great tall creature?
Who acts: yard, you · What happens: be, do, see · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard, you), 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 yard | det |
| 2 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | ccomp |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 ugly | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 ugly | advmod |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 creature | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 creature | nsubj |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ugly | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the yard | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the yard not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | present | you | anything | ever | ugly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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