The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 86
They were sure of what it was, and thought they had as good reason as ever they would have to call on the Witch, and so they did.
Who acts: lives · What happens: be, think, have, call, do · To what, where: good reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sure | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reason | amod |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 have | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 call | mark |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Witch | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Witch | det |
| 25 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 call | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 did | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 did | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 did | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lives = life | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | lives = life | good reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | would | lives = life | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call | to-infinitive | lives = life not said here | on the Witch | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | do | past | lives = life | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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