The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 141
Well, that was a very small matter, they thought, and agreed to do it.
Who acts: that, places · What happens: be, think, agree, do · To what, where: small matter, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, places), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 matter | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 matter | amod |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 agreed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 agreed | cc |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 agreed | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | a small matter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | places = place | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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