The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 10
Most people thought this saddle was of wood, and did not see the little sparkles of gold and silver that were hidden in it.
Who acts: Most people, saddle · What happens: think, be, not see, hide · To what, where: little sparkles, gold, saddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most people, saddle), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saddle | det |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wood | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sparkles | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sparkles | amod |
| 16 | sparkles | sparkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sparkles | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silver | cc |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gold | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | aux:pass |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gold | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hidden | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Most people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this saddle | of wood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | Most people not said here | the little sparkles of gold and silver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sparkle=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hide | past · passive | gold and silver | saddle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in it=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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