The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 61
There was no one in sight, and they carefully examined every part of it.
Who acts: one, feet · What happens: be, examine · To what, where: part
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, feet), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 examined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 examined | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 examined | nsubj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 examined | advmod |
| 11 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 examined | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 part | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no one in sight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | feet = foot | every part of part | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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