The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 58
‘One would think a fairy had put it there on purpose.’
Who acts: One · What happens: think, put · To what, where: fairy, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 put | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 purpose | case |
| 12 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | One | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | past · perfect · passive | a fairy | purpose; there | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/58/