The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 54
“They thanked heaven and me, and then considered what they could do to show their gratitude to me.
Who acts: bird · What happens: thank, consider, do, show · To what, where: heaven, gratitude, schemes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 me | cc |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 considered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 considered | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 considered | advmod |
| 10 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 considered | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 do | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 show | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | past | bird | heaven | me obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | |||
| 2 | consider in a quote | past | bird not said here | then | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could | bird | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | bird not said here | bird's gratitude | schemes = scheme | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Topic to i=Recipient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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