The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 12
He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: name, be, learn, call · To what, where: gentleman, president, learned body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 G. | nmod:desc |
| 5 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 6 | Laurence | Laurence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 G. | flat |
| 7 | Gomme | Gomme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 G. | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 president | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 president | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 president | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 president | cop |
| 12 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 named | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 15 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 president | nmod |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 body | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Society | det |
| 19 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lore | compound |
| 20 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Society | compound |
| 21 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | gentleman | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | gentleman | president | of a learned body | tree rules | |||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | call | participle | a learned body not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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