The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 100
Under these circumstances it was unanimously decided that whichever of the two could show to the world the greatest wonder should be Queen; but it was to be a special kind of wonder, no moving of mountains or any such common fairy tricks would do.
Who acts: whichever, choice, special kind · What happens: decide, show, be, do · To what, where: circumstances, greatest wonder, Queen, special kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whichever, choice, special kind), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 7 decided | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | aux:pass |
| 6 | unanimously | unanimously | ADV | _ | 7 decided | advmod |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 show | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 whichever | det |
| 9 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 two | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 whichever | nmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wonder | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 wonder | amod |
| 20 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 Queen | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Queen | cop |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wonder | appos |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 kind | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 kind | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kind | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 kind | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 kind | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kind | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 kind | det |
| 31 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 kind | amod |
| 32 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 do | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 wonder | case |
| 34 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kind | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 moving | punct |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 moving | det |
| 37 | moving | moving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kind | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 mountains | case |
| 39 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 moving | nmod |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 tricks | cc |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 tricks | det |
| 42 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tricks | amod |
| 43 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tricks | amod |
| 44 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tricks | compound |
| 45 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 kind | conj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 do | aux |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 show | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | this circumstances | unanimously property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | could | that whichever of the two | the greatest wonder | to the world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wonder=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | should | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | choice | a special kind or any such common fairy tricks | of wonder; no moving of mountains nmod | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | would | a special kind or any such common fairy tricks | vn act-114-1 «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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