The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 35
Homer knew the stories and made up the ‘Odyssey’ out of half a dozen of them.
Who acts: Homer · What happens: know, make up · To what, where: stories, dozen
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 (Homer), 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 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Odyssey | det |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Odyssey | punct |
| 10 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Odyssey | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 dozen | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dozen | case |
| 14 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 16 dozen | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dozen | det |
| 16 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 knew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dozen | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Homer | the stories | half dozen of alphabets | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | Homer not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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