The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 10
This proposal quite satisfied the others, and they all separated as they had agreed.
Who acts: proposal, others · What happens: satisfy, separate, agree · To what, where: others
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proposal, others), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 proposal | det |
| 2 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 satisfied | advmod |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 others | det |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 satisfied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 separated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 separated | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 separated | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 agreed | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 agreed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 agreed | aux |
| 15 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 separated | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past | this proposal | the others | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | separate | participle · passive | others = other | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | others = other | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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