The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 41
They supplied me as fast as they could, with a thousand marks of wonder at my appetite.
Who acts: legs · What happens: supply, mark · To what, where: me, appetite, wonder
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 (legs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supplied | nsubj |
| 2 | supplied | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 supplied | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 supplied | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marks | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 marks | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 marks | nummod |
| 13 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 supplied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wonder | case |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marks | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 appetite | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 18 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 supplied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | past | legs = leg | me | my appetite | with thousand marks of wonder; fast property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with mark=Theme | ||
| 2 | mark | wonder | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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