The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 145
There were lions, bears, wolves, stags, horses, buffaloes, eagles, and peacocks.
Who acts: lions · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bears | punct |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lions | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wolves | punct |
| 7 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lions | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stags | punct |
| 9 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lions | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horses | punct |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stags | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buffaloes | punct |
| 13 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 horses | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eagles | punct |
| 15 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 horses | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 peacocks | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 peacocks | cc |
| 18 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | lions and bears and wolves and stags | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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