The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 23
“This is a list of what we found about the body of the Man-Mountain, who treated us with great civility.”
Who acts: This, we, Man · What happens: be, find, treat · To what, where: list, us
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 (This, we, Man), 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 | _ | 5 list | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 list | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 list | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 list | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Man | det |
| 15 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mountain | punct |
| 17 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Man | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treated | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 treated | nsubj |
| 20 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 treated | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 civility | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 civility | amod |
| 24 | civility | civility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 treated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 list | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 list | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a list | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | past | we | about the body of the Man and Mountain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat in a quote | past | the Man and Mountain | us | with great civility | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with civility=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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