The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 31
Nobody really wrote most of the stories.
Who acts: Nobody · What happens: write · To what, where: most
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 wrote | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stories | det |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 most | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Nobody | most of the stories | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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