The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 15
Now Jack was sure this hen was that of which the fairy had spoken.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: hen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sure | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hen | det |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoken | aux:pass |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoken | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 spoken | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoken | aux |
| 14 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack | now | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | this hen | 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 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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