The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 27
He opened that and found a grain of wheat, and in that was a millet seed.
Who acts: King, that · What happens: open, find, be · To what, where: that, grain, millet seed
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grain | det |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wheat | case |
| 9 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grain | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seed | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 seed | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 seed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seed | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 seed | det |
| 16 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seed | compound |
| 17 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | King | that | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | King not said here | a grain of wheat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | a millet seed | 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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