The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 2
The attendants were surprised: they knew of no whelps.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: be, know
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants), 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 attendants | det |
| 2 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 whelps | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 whelps | det |
| 10 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the attendants | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | attendants = attendant | of no whelps | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of whelp=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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