The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 8
It only bloomed every five years, and then bore but a single rose, but oh, such a rose!
What happens: bloom, bear · To what, where: grave
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bloomed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 bloomed | advmod |
| 3 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 years | det |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bloomed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bore | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bore | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bore | advmod |
| 10 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bloomed | parataxis |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rose | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rose | amod |
| 14 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bore | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 rose | cc |
| 17 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 rose | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 oh | punct |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 rose | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rose | det |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bloomed | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bloomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | participle · passive | grave | year | such rose obl | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | past | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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