The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 15
I was respected by everyone, and it was said that no king ever deserved it more.
Who acts: everyone, king · What happens: respect, say, deserve · To what, where: I, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (everyone, king), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 respected | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 respected | aux:pass |
| 3 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 respected | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux:pass |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 respected | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 deserved | mark |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deserved | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 deserved | advmod |
| 15 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deserved | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 deserved | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 respected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | past · passive | everyone | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | kingdom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | deserve | past | no king | kingdom | ever | 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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