The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 29
But when they reached it, it was difficult to believe that it was the same, for it had all been rebuilt and done up again.
Who acts: spirits, castle · What happens: reach, be, believe, rebuild, do up · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, castle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 difficult | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 difficult | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 difficult | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 difficult | cop |
| 9 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 believe | mark |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 difficult | csubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 same | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 same | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 same | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rebuilt | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 rebuilt | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rebuilt | aux |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 rebuilt | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 23 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 same | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 done | cc |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rebuilt | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 done | compound:prt |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 done | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | spirits = spirit | castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | believe | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | castle | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rebuild | past · perfect · passive | castle | all property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 6 | do up | participle | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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