The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 6
In what way he learned it is beyond my knowledge for he was mighty cautious about telling how he came by so wonderful a tune.
Who acts: Maurice · What happens: learn, be, tell, come · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 way | nsubj |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knowledge | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 knowledge | cop |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 knowledge | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 cautious | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cautious | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cautious | cop |
| 14 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cautious | amod |
| 15 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knowledge | advcl |
| 16 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 telling | mark |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 cautious | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 telling | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 wonderful | case |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 wonderful | advmod |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 came | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tune | det |
| 25 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wonderful | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knowledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Maurice | way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | way | beyond my knowledge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Maurice | cautious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Maurice not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | past | Maurice | wonderful property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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