The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 35
This he granted me, but in a very cold manner, of which I afterward learned the reason.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: grant, learn · To what, where: me, cold manner, reason
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 granted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manner | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 manner | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 cold | advmod |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manner | amod |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 learned | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 learned | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 learned | nsubj |
| 16 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 17 learned | advmod |
| 17 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reason | det |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learned | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | This | me | a cold manner | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | past | I | the reason | afterward property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
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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