The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 133
I had my own pillow, and there was a stove there, which at this time of year is the most beautiful thing in the world.
Who acts: I, stove · What happens: have, be · To what, where: own pillow, beautiful thing, world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stove), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pillow | amod |
| 5 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stove | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thing | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 thing | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stove | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | my own pillow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a stove and the beautiful thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a stove and the beautiful thing | the beautiful thing | the world | time | 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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