The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 9
The youth thought that it was very easy work to watch the foals, and that he could do it well enough.
Who acts: youth, King · What happens: think, be, watch, do · To what, where: easy work, foals, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 work | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 easy | advmod |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 work | amod |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 watch | mark |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foals | det |
| 13 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 watch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 watch | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the youth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | youth | easy work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the foals | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | could | King | youth | enough, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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