The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 67
She then brak the pear, and found it filled wi’ jewelry far richer than the contents o’ the apple.
Who acts: damosel, contents · What happens: brak, find, fill, o · To what, where: pear
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damosel, contents), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brak | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brak | advmod |
| 3 | brak | brak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pear | det |
| 5 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brak | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brak | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wi | amod |
| 11 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jewelry | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 wi | case |
| 13 | jewelry | jewelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 richer | nsubj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 richer | advmod |
| 15 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 found | ccomp |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 o | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 contents | det |
| 18 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 o | nsubj |
| 19 | o | o | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 richer | advcl |
| 20 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 22 apple | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apple | det |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 o | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brak | past | damosel | the pear | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | damosel not said here | pear | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | o | present | the contents | ' the apple | tree rules |
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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