The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103
The church was packed full, but he could see nothing.
Who acts: smith · What happens: pack, see · To what, where: church, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 packed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 packed | aux:pass |
| 4 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 packed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 packed | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past · passive | the church | full property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | could | smith | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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