The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 115
They did not know what to do, for such a lamp no one had ever heard of.
Who acts: brothers, one · What happens: not know, do, hear · To what, where: lamp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lamp | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 lamp | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 lamp | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lamp | det |
| 12 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 heard | advmod |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lamp | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heard | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | brothers = brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | no one | such lamp not said here | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lamp=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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