The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 98
It was quite different from anything he had tasted before, and he thought it was delicious.
Who acts: food, boy · What happens: be, taste, think · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (food, boy), 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 | 4 different | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 different | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 different | advmod |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 different | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tasted | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tasted | aux |
| 9 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 anything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 tasted | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 different | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delicious | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 delicious | cop |
| 17 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | food | anything | different property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | taste | past · perfect | boy | before property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | boy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | food | delicious 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 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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