The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 24
However, he thought it best not to make a fuss, so he opened the satchel, and could scarcely believe his own eyes, for, instead of the hard crust, he saw two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: think, not make, open, believe, see · To what, where: satchel, fuss, own eyes, two beautiful fresh rolls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 make | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 make | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fuss | det |
| 11 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 opened | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 satchel | det |
| 17 | satchel | satchel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 believe | cc |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | aux |
| 21 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 22 believe | advmod |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 opened | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 believe | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crust | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 crust | case |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crust | punct |
| 29 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 33 crust | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 instead | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 crust | det |
| 32 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 crust | amod |
| 33 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 believe | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 rolls | nummod |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rolls | amod |
| 39 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rolls | amod |
| 40 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 saw | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 meat | cc |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 meat | det |
| 43 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 meat | amod |
| 44 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rolls | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Simpleton | satchel | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | not make | to-infinitive | a fuss | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | ||||
| 3 | open | past | Simpleton | the satchel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location satchel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | believe | could | Simpleton not said here | Simpleton's own eyes | scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | see | past | Simpleton | two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roll=Stimulus |
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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