The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 29
Very soon he noticed with wonder, that neither rocks nor trees barred his path.
Who acts: thought, rocks · What happens: notice, bar · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, rocks), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wonder | case |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 barred | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 barred | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 rocks | det |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 barred | nsubj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 trees | cc |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rocks | conj |
| 13 | barred | bar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 path | nmod:poss |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 barred | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | thought | with wonder; soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bar | past | neither rocks nor trees | that | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=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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