The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 69
The Prince was delighted, for a dog that can be shut up in an acorn must be very small indeed.
Who acts: Prince, dog · What happens: be, shut up · To what, where: dog, acorn
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dog | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 small | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 shut | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shut | aux:pass |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dog | acl:relcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 acorn | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 acorn | det |
| 16 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 small | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 small | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delighted | ccomp |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 delighted | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | delighted, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut up | can · passive | a dog | a acorn | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | must | a dog | small property | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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