The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 28
The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, ‘Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood?’
Who acts: one, weary youth, anything · What happens: say, lay down, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, weary youth, anything), 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 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 other | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saying | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 lay | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 10 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
| 16 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 Is | expl |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 Is | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wonderful | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 wonderful | advmod |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 anything | amod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 remarkable | cc |
| 23 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wonderful | conj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 neighbourhood | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 neighbourhood | det |
| 26 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remarkable | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | the one | to the other | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | the weary youth | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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