The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 46
It is calculated that eleven hundred persons have at different times suffered rather than break their eggs at the smaller end.
Who acts: hundred persons, different times · What happens: calculate, have, suffer, break · To what, where: life, eggs, smaller end
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred persons, different times), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 calculated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 calculated | aux:pass |
| 3 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 5 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 persons | nummod |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 calculated | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 suffered | mark |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 times | amod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suffered | nsubj |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 break | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 suffered | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 break | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 20 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 end | amod |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calculated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calculate | present · passive | life | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | hundred persons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past | different times | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | break | infinitive | different times not said here | Emperor's eggs | at the smaller end | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=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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