The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 81
He pondered long and deeply over the matter, and finally came to a conclusion.
Who acts: King · What happens: ponder, come · To what, where: matter, conclusion
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pondered | nsubj |
| 2 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pondered | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 deeply | cc |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 pondered | conj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 matter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pondered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pondered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 conclusion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conclusion | det |
| 15 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | King | the matter | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | King not said here | a conclusion | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location |
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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