The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 94
The threads were hardly visible, and it went through the ring without the smallest difficulty, at the same time measuring a hundred yards quite correctly.
Who acts: threads, purity, same time · What happens: be, go, measure · To what, where: ring, hundred yards
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 (threads, purity, same time), 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 threads | det |
| 2 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 visible | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 visible | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 visible | advmod |
| 5 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 visible | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 ring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 difficulty | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 difficulty | det |
| 15 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 difficulty | amod |
| 16 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 22 | measuring | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 time | acl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hundred | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 yards | nummod |
| 25 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 measuring | obj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 correctly | advmod |
| 27 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 22 measuring | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the threads | hardly, visible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | purity | the ring | time | without the smallest difficulty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ring=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | measure | gerund | the same time not said here | hundred yards | correctly property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme yard=Value |
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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