The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 17

In his right waistcoat pocket we found a number of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the size of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked with black figures, which we humbly conceive to be writings.

Who acts: we, white thin substances · What happens: find, fold, tie, mark, conceive, be · To what, where: number, right waistcoat pocket, one, another, three men, black figures

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, white thin substances), 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	_	5 pocket	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pocket	nmod:poss
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pocket	amod
4	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pocket	compound
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 substances	case
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 substances	amod
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 substances	amod
13	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 number	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 folded	punct
15	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 substances	acl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 folded	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 another	case
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 size	punct
20	about	about	ADV	_	22 size	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 size	det
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 substances	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 men	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 men	nummod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 size	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tied	punct
27	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 men	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 cable	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cable	det
30	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cable	amod
31	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tied	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 marked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 marked	cc
34	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 figures	case
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 figures	amod
37	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 marked	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 conceive	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 conceive	obj
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 conceive	nsubj
41	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	42 conceive	advmod
42	conceive	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 figures	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	45 writings	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 writings	cop
45	writings	writing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 conceive	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	we	a number of white thin substances and the size of three men	Majesty's right waistcoat pocket		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	fold	participle	white thin substances and the size of three men not said here	one	another		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	tie	participle		three men not said here		with a strong cable	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with cable=Co-Patient
4	mark	participle	we not said here	black figures			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Destination
5	conceive	present	we	black figures		humbly property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	we not said here	writings			tree rules

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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