The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
He had never thought that flying could be like that!
Who acts: bird · What happens: not think, fly, be · To what, where: that
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 (bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 that | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 that | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 flying | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · perfect | bird | that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | bird not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | could | like that | 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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