The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 51
“Thus, through the great friendship of the secretary the affair was arranged.
Who acts: secretary · What happens: arrange · To what, where: affair
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 (secretary), 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 | _ | 7 friendship | punct |
| 2 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 friendship | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thus | punct |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 friendship | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 friendship | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friendship | amod |
| 7 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 secretary | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 secretary | det |
| 10 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friendship | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 affair | det |
| 12 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 arranged | aux:pass |
| 14 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 secretary | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 friendship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange in a quote | past · passive | the secretary not said here | the affair | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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