The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 149
‘His house is twenty times larger than mine; he possesses great knowledge, but he cannot bear the sun and the beautiful flowers, and speaks slightingly of them, for he has never seen them.’
Who acts: house, neighbour · What happens: be, possess, not bear, speak, not see · To what, where: great knowledge, sun, ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, neighbour), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 larger | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 larger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 larger | cop |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 larger | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 mine | case |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 larger | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 possesses | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 possesses | nsubj |
| 12 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 larger | parataxis |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knowledge | amod |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possesses | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bear | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bear | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bear | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 bear | advmod |
| 20 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 possesses | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bear | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flowers | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flowers | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sun | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 speaks | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 speaks | cc |
| 29 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 possesses | conj |
| 30 | slightingly | slightingly | ADV | _ | 32 them | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 speaks | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seen | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 seen | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seen | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | aux |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 seen | advmod |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 speaks | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seen | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 larger | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | neighbour's house | time | than mine; large property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | present | neighbour | great knowledge | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not bear | can | neighbour | the sun and the beautiful flowers | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | neighbour not said here | of ladies = lady | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not see | present · perfect | neighbour | ladies = lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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