The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 16
It was a fact, however, as we shall see in the course of our story.
Who acts: three, we · What happens: be, see · To what, where: fact, course
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fact | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fact | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fact | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fact | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 course | det |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 story | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 story | nmod:poss |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 course | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fact | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | three | a fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | shall | we | a fact not said here | the course of our story | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=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 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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