The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 7
A very comical sight was Moti when he rode out to the war.
Who acts: comical sight, Moti · What happens: be, ride out · To what, where: Moti, war
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 (comical sight, Moti), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 comical | advmod |
| 3 | comical | comical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Moti | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Moti | cop |
| 6 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 rode | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 war | det |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a comical sight | Moti | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride out | past | Moti | the war | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to war=Trajectory |
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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