The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 5
What kind of bird do you think he caught in his net?
Who acts: kind · What happens: think, catch · To what, where: net · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 net | nmod:poss |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | what kind of bird | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | kind | man's net | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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