The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 3

It was the work of a very clever Fairy, and contained a description of the whole earth.

Who acts: leaf · What happens: be, contain, describe · To what, where: work, description, whole earth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 Fairy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Fairy	amod
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 contained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 contained	cc
12	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 description	det
14	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 contained	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 earth	amod
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 description	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	leaf	the work	of a clever Fairy	tree rules
2	contain	past	leaf not said here	a description of the whole earth		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=Theme
3	describe			the whole earth		nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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