The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 174
And so it was that the child throve, till not a finer boy was to be seen anywhere.
Who acts: reindeer · What happens: be, see · To what, where: finer boy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 throve | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 throve | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 throve | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 throve | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 throve | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throve | nsubj |
| 8 | throve | throve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 boy | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | finer | finer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | compound |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 throve | advcl |
| 19 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 seen | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 throve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | reindeer | throve property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a finer boy | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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