The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 40
Once upon a time there was a youth called Moti, who was very big and strong, but the clumsiest creature you can imagine.
Who acts: youth, Moti, clumsiest creature · What happens: be, call, imagine · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Moti, clumsiest creature), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 youth | acl |
| 10 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 big | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 big | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 big | advmod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Moti | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strong | cc |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 big | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 imagine | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 imagine | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 creature | det |
| 21 | clumsiest | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 creature | amod |
| 22 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 imagine | nsubj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 imagine | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 imagine | aux |
| 25 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 was | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a youth | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a youth not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Moti | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Moti not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | imagine | can | the clumsiest creature | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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