The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 43
They are the finest aspens I have ever beheld!’
Who acts: trees, I · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: finest aspens
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, I), 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 | 5 aspens | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 aspens | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 aspens | det |
| 4 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 aspens | amod |
| 5 | aspens | aspen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beheld | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 beheld | advmod |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 aspens | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 aspens | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 aspens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | trees = tree | the finest aspens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behold | present · perfect | I | the finest aspens not said here | ever | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aspen=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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