The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 57
This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and the theft was discovered.
Who acts: remarkable taste · What happens: become, know, discover, taste · To what, where: theft, fair Parsley
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remarkable taste), 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 | 3 taste | det |
| 2 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taste | amod |
| 3 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Parsley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Parsley | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Parsley | amod |
| 7 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taste | nmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 became | advmod |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 discovered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 discovered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 theft | det |
| 14 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 discovered | aux:pass |
| 16 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 became | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this remarkable taste of the fair Parsley | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | this remarkable taste of the fair Parsley not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | discover | past · passive | the theft | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | taste | the fair Parsley | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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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