The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 97
However, he was pleased to see that the fig-tree looked in splendid condition, and was full of fruit.
Who acts: Ciccu, fig tree · What happens: be, see, look
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, fig tree), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fig | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 condition | case |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 condition | amod |
| 16 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 full | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fruit | case |
| 22 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ciccu | however, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the fig tree | in splendid condition | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in condition=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Ciccu not said here | of fruit; full property | tree rules |
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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