The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 23
However, I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, convince · To what, where: black cattle, pocket, captain
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cattle | amod |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sheep | cc |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cattle | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 astonishment | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 astonishment | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 astonishment | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 astonishment | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 astonishment | amod |
| 19 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pocket | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 convinced | punct |
| 21 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 22 convinced | advmod |
| 22 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 convinced | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | my black cattle and sheep | my pocket and great astonishment | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | convince | past | I not said here | captain | clearly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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