The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 24
All saw the good sense of his words and showed their approval.
Who acts: God, servants · What happens: see, show, sense, word, approve · To what, where: good sense, approval, words
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, servants), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 saw | advmod |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sense | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sense | amod |
| 5 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sense | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 approval | nmod:poss |
| 12 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the good sense of God's words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sense=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | past | servants's approval | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent approval=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | sense | God's words | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | word | God | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | approve | servants = servant | nom approval «act transitive»: poss=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 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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