The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 6
I treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I saw that both the soldiers and people were delighted at this mark of my kindness.
Who acts: I, soldiers · What happens: treat, take, see, be, mark · To what, where: rest, same manner, strings, mark, kindness
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, soldiers), 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 treated | nsubj |
| 2 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 treated | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 manner | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manner | amod |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 treated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 treated | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod | ||
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 treated | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 delighted | mark |
| 24 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 soldiers | cc:preconj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soldiers | det |
| 26 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 delighted | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 people | cc |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 soldiers | conj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 delighted | cop |
| 30 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 mark | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 mark | det |
| 33 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 delighted | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kindness | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 36 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mark | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | I | the rest | the same manner | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | I not said here | strings = string | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the soldiers and people | this mark of my kindness | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mark | my kindness | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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