The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 67
He told them that he had seen in the middle of the sea the most wonderful house that ever was built.
Who acts: cat · What happens: tell, see, build · To what, where: crows, wonderful house, middle · 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 (cat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 middle | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 wonderful | advmod |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 built | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 built | advmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 built | aux:pass |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 house | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | cat | crows = crow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | cat | the wonderful house | the middle of the sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | build | past · passive | the wonderful house | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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