The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 15
In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a silver cover, which we could not lift.
Who acts: we · What happens: see, not lift · To what, where: huge silver chest, left pocket, silver cover
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pocket | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pocket | det |
| 3 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pocket | amod |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl | ||
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chest | amod |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chest | compound |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cover | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cover | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cover | det |
| 14 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cover | amod |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lift | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lift | obj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lift | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lift | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 lift | advmod |
| 21 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cover | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | we | a huge silver chest | the left pocket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not lift | could | we | a silver cover | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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