The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 3
Maurice Connor was the king, and that’s no small word, of all the pipers in Munster.
Who acts: Maurice, that · What happens: be · To what, where: king, small word
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maurice, that), 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 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nsubj |
| 2 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maurice | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 word | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 word | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 word | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pipers | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pipers | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 pipers | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pipers | det |
| 17 | pipers | piper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Munster | case |
| 19 | Munster | Munster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pipers | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Maurice | the king and no small word and all pipers in Munster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | no small word | tree rules |
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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