The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 112
All these crimes, which could be traced to nobody, filled the people with astonishment.
Who acts: crimes · What happens: trace, fill · To what, where: crimes, people
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crimes), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 crimes | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 crimes | det |
| 3 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 traced | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 traced | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 traced | aux:pass |
| 8 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crimes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 nobody | case |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 traced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crimes | punct |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 astonishment | case |
| 16 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | could · passive | all crimes | to nobody | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | all crimes | the people | with astonishment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with astonishment=Instrument |
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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