The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 31
“Now everyone can see,” they thought, “that we are the grandest!
Who acts: everyone, matches, we · What happens: see, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everyone, matches, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 everyone | advmod |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grandest | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grandest | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 grandest | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 grandest | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 grandest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grandest | det |
| 16 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | matches = match | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | grand 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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