The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 51
Each one whom he asked had seen it differently, but they had all found it beautiful.
Who acts: story, one, people · What happens: ask, see, find · To what, where: one, show
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 (story, one, people), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 asked | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | obj |
| 9 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seen | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 found | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | story | each one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | each one | show | differently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | people | show | all, beautiful property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/51/