The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 14
“In the right coat pocket of the great Man-Mountain we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to cover the carpet of your Majesty’s chief room of state.
Who acts: we · What happens: find, cover · To what, where: one great piece, right coat pocket, carpet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 pocket | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pocket | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pocket | amod |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pocket | compound |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl | ||
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Man | amod |
| 10 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pocket | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mountain | punct |
| 12 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pocket | conj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 piece | nummod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cloth | case |
| 20 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloth | amod |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 large | punct |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 large | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 cover | mark |
| 26 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 large | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 carpet | det |
| 28 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cover | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 room | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 room | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Majesty | case |
| 33 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 room | amod |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carpet | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 state | case |
| 36 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 room | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | we | one great piece of coarse cloth | the right coat pocket of the great Man and Mountain | large property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||
| 2 | cover in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the carpet of your Majesty's chief room of state | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carpet=Destination |
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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