The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 55
They were splendid things that he heard, and the next day was to be his wedding day.
Who acts: eyes, story, next day · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: splendid things, wedding day
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 (eyes, story, next day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 things | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | cop |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 day | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 day | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 day | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 day | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | compound |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | eyes = eye | splendid things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | story | splendid things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the next day | story's wedding day | 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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