The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 254
And that is the way we learnt the whole story.
Who acts: that, we · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: way, whole story
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 (that, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 way | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 learnt | nsubj |
| 7 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learnt | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | we | the whole story | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/254/