The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 13
That was not true; it was his master who owned these things; but he was a terrible boaster.
Who acts: That, collar, master, gentleman · What happens: not be, be, own · To what, where: master, things, terrible boaster
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, collar, master, gentleman), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 master | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 owned | nsubj |
| 11 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | acl:relcl |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 owned | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 boaster | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 boaster | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 boaster | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 boaster | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boaster | det |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boaster | amod |
| 20 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | collar | gentleman's master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | own | past | gentleman's master | this things | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | gentleman | a terrible boaster | 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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