The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 46
Perhaps the very ones which killed the ram were still sitting there in a corner.
Who acts: ones · What happens: kill, sit · To what, where: ram, corner
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ones), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 ones | advmod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ram | det |
| 8 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 sitting | advmod |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sitting | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the ones | the ram | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the ones | a corner; there | still | perhaps property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=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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