The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 87
I quite expect he found a leg of the ram in the kiln.
Who acts: I, much · What happens: expect, find · To what, where: leg
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 (I, much), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 expect | advmod |
| 3 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expect | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leg | det |
| 7 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ram | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ram | det |
| 10 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leg | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 kiln | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kiln | det |
| 13 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ram | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | much | a leg of the ram in the kiln | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Topic |
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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