The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 9
We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, be · To what, where: Blue
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Blue | det |
| 5 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Red | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Red | det |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Blue | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Green | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Green | det |
| 11 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Red | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 here | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Yellow | det |
| 17 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 here | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | We | the Blue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | We not said here | the Yellow obl; here property | tree rules |
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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