The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 44
Now, you must know that Peter was her eldest son, whom she loved above all the rest, because he was somewhat carroty, as she herself was.
Who acts: you, Peter, lord · What happens: know, be, love · To what, where: eldest son, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Peter, lord), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 son | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 son | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 son | appos |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 rest | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carroty | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 carroty | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carroty | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carroty | cop |
| 24 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 25 carroty | advmod |
| 25 | carroty | carroty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 was | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 was | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 was | nsubj |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 she | conj |
| 30 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carroty | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Peter | Peter's eldest son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Peter | all rest | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | lord | carroty, somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | Peter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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