The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 83
In my time one saw them at parties, theatres, balls, and promenades every day.
What happens: see · To what, where: ladies, parties
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 parties | case |
| 8 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 theatres | punct |
| 10 | theatres | theatre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 parties | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 balls | punct |
| 12 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 parties | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promenades | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 promenades | cc |
| 15 | promenades | promenade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ladies = lady | parties and theatres and balls | day; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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