The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 72
It was a queer thing for Maurice to think of sending all the way from the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: twelvemonth · What happens: be, think, send · To what, where: queer thing, way, bottom
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 (twelvemonth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Maurice | case |
| 7 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 sending | mark |
| 11 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 think | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 way | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | twelvemonth | a queer thing | for Maurice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | send | gerund | all way | the bottom of the sea | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from bottom=Initial_Location |
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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