The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 76
Fond as they all were of one another, the two eldest could not help being glad to think that their dogs certainly had a better chance.
Who acts: Princes, Fond, dogs · What happens: be, not help, think, have · To what, where: better chance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princes, Fond, dogs), 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 | Fond | fond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nsubj |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Fond | appos |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 two | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Fond | conj |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 help | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 glad | cop |
| 17 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 help | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 think | mark |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 glad | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | nsubj |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chance | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 chance | amod |
| 27 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Princes = prince | as one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | Fond | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | glad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | Princes's dogs | a better chance | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
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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