The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 52
‘There is a cherry tree in our garden that is exactly seven years old,’ said they.
Who acts: cherry tree, garden, notes · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cherry tree, garden, notes), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 old | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 12 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 seven | advmod |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 garden | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a cherry tree in our garden | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | our garden | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | notes = note | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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