The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 60
And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which were not true.
Who acts: things · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: that
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 (things), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boasted | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 boasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boasted | cop |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 boasted | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 boasted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boasted | aux |
| 7 | boasted | boast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 terribly | advmod |
| 9 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 7 boasted | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boasted | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 true | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 true | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 true | advmod |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect · passive | that | about things; boast, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | things | true 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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