The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 67
He rules over all fish and animals of the deep; he has the finest cows and the swiftest horses that ever chewed grass at the bottom of the ocean.
Who acts: Ahti · What happens: have, chew · To what, where: finest cows, swiftest horses, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahti), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rules | nsubj |
| 2 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rules | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 animals | cc |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fish | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 deep | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deep | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rules | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cows | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 cows | amod |
| 16 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 horses | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horses | det |
| 19 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 horses | amod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cows | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 chewed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 chewed | advmod |
| 23 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 horses | acl:relcl |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chewed | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 bottom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottom | det |
| 27 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chewed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ocean | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ocean | det |
| 30 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bottom | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rules | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ahti | the finest cows and the swiftest horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | chew | participle · passive | the swiftest horses | the bottom of the ocean | ever | 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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