The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 143
It is built entirely of the seeds of all the pears I have eaten in my life.
Who acts: I · What happens: build, eat · To what, where: instance, pears, life
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 seeds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seeds | det |
| 7 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pears | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pears | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pears | det |
| 11 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seeds | nmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 eaten | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eaten | aux |
| 14 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 pears | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eaten | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | instance | of the seeds of all pears; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | eat | present · perfect | I | all pears not said here | my life | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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