The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 4
In every case there was some little defect, which showed the genuine article was not yet found.
Who acts: little defect · What happens: be, show, not find · To what, where: little defect, case, genuine article · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little defect), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 defect | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 defect | cop |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 defect | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 defect | amod |
| 8 | defect | defect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 showed | nsubj |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 defect | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 article | det |
| 13 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 article | amod |
| 14 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 found | advmod |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 showed | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 defect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | some little defect | every case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | some little defect | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not find | past · passive | the genuine article | yet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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