The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 27
But I will soon put an end to her pretensions!”
Who acts: I · What happens: put · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pretensions | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pretensions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pretensions | pretension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | a end | to dream's pretensions; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
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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