The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 24
I had one private pocket which escaped their search, containing a pair of spectacles and a small spy-glass, which, being of no consequence to the Emperor, I did not think myself bound in honor to discover.
Who acts: I, one private pocket, pair, worships · What happens: have, escape, contain, be, not think, bind · To what, where: one private pocket, search, pair, myself, honor
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 (I, one private pocket, pair, worships), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pocket | nummod |
| 4 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pocket | amod |
| 5 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj | ||
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 escaped | nsubj |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pocket | acl:relcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 search | nmod:poss |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 containing | punct |
| 11 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pair | det |
| 13 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 containing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spectacles | case |
| 15 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pair | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glass | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glass | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glass | amod |
| 19 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glass | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 spy | punct |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pair | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 consequence | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 consequence | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 which | punct |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 consequence | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 consequence | case |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 consequence | det |
| 28 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pair | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Emperor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Emperor | det |
| 31 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 consequence | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 think | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 think | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 think | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 think | advmod |
| 36 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 think | obj |
| 38 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 think | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 honor | case |
| 40 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bound | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 discover | mark |
| 42 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 bound | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | one private pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | escape | past | one private pocket | worships's search | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme search=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | contain | gerund | I not said here | a pair of spectacles and a small spy glass and no consequence | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a pair of spectacles and a small spy glass and no consequence | of no consequence; to the Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | I | myself | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bind | participle | I not said here | honor | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | discover | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | search | worships = worship | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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