The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 60
They were not a little astonished at this, for of course they thought it was the same goat that Simon had sent home laden with provisions.
Who acts: guests, course · What happens: not be, think, be, send, laden · To what, where: this, same goat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guests, course), 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 | 6 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 astonished | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 14 thought | advmod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 of | fixed |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 goat | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 goat | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goat | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 goat | amod |
| 19 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sent | aux |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 goat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 sent | advmod |
| 25 | laden | laden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 goat | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 provisions | case |
| 27 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 laden | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | guests = guest | this | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | guests = guest | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | course | the same goat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect · passive | the same goat | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | laden | present | course not said here | with provisions | tree rules |
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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