The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 57
Before he was twelve the Editor knew true ghost stories enough to fill a volume.
Who acts: book, Editor · What happens: be, know, fill · To what, where: twelve, true ghost stories, volume
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 (book, Editor), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 twelve | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 twelve | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 twelve | cop |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 knew | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Editor | det |
| 6 | Editor | Editor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stories | amod |
| 9 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | compound |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 knew | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fill | mark |
| 13 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 volume | det |
| 15 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | book | twelve | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the Editor | true ghost stories | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fill | to-infinitive | the Editor not said here | a volume | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |
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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