The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 44
As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking for the tiniest bud for more than a month yet.
Who acts: one · What happens: think, look
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 trees | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trees | det |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 think | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 air | amod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trees | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 think | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 bud | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bud | det |
| 19 | tiniest | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 bud | amod |
| 20 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 month | case |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 25 month | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 more | fixed |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 looking | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | no one | ever | as the trees in the open air | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | no one not said here | yet; month | for the tiniest bud | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bud=Theme |
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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