The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 26
In the meantime I felt at least forty more following the first.
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, follow · To what, where: forty more, meantime, first
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 forty | nmod |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 more | nummod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 felt | obj |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 more | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 first | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 following | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | I | forty more | the meantime | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent more=Theme in meantime=Location | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the first | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=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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