The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 73
I found by their discourse that everybody had got my name into their mouth, though I kept silent as death during their discourse.
Who acts: I, everybody, bags, my · What happens: find, get, keep, discourse, name · To what, where: discourse, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, everybody, bags, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 discourse | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | obl |
| 7 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 discourse | acl:relcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 kept | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 19 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kept | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 22 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 discourse | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | by bags's discourse | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | everybody | bags's discourse | bags's mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | keep | past | I | during bags's discourse | as death; silent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | discourse | bags = bag | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | discourse | bags = bag | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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