The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 63
The veal is roasted, and the chickens boiled.’
Who acts: chickens · What happens: roast, boil · To what, where: veal
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 (chickens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 veal | det |
| 2 | veal | veal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 roasted | aux:pass |
| 4 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boiled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boiled | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chickens | det |
| 8 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boiled | nsubj |
| 9 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 roasted | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 roasted | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | present · passive | the veal | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | boil | past | the chickens | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/63/