The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 77
In the first, great mirrors reflect the past; in the second, we contemplate the present; in the third, the future can be read.
Who acts: first great mirrors, we · What happens: reflect, contemplate, read · To what, where: past, present, future
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first great mirrors, we), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 reflect | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mirrors | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 mirrors | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mirrors | amod |
| 6 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reflect | nsubj |
| 7 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 contemplate | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 past | det |
| 9 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflect | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 reflect | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 second | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 second | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 reflect | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reflect | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 contemplate | nsubj |
| 16 | contemplate | contemplate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 present | det |
| 18 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contemplate | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 third | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 third | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 contemplate | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 read | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 future | det |
| 25 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 read | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 read | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 read | aux:pass |
| 28 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 third | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 contemplate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | the first great mirrors | the past | in the second | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contemplate | present | we | the present | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | read | can · passive | the future | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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