The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 21
The cavalry thought that this dreadful language was meant for the enemy, and were filled with admiration of his courage.
Who acts: cavalry · What happens: think, mean, fill, admire · To what, where: dreadful language, courage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavalry), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cavalry | det |
| 2 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 meant | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 language | det |
| 6 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 language | amod |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 meant | aux:pass |
| 9 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enemy | det |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 filled | cc |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux:pass |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 meant | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 admiration | case |
| 18 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 courage | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 courage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 admiration | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the cavalry | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | past · passive | this dreadful language | for the enemy | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for enemy=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | with admiration of cavalry's courage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with admiration=Instrument | |||||
| 4 | admire | cavalry's courage | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/16/21/