English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 3
But Lady Mary was a brave one, she was, and she opened the door, and what do you think she saw?
Who acts: Lady Mary, Mary, you · What happens: be, open, think, see · To what, where: brave one, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Mary, Mary, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mary | compound |
| 3 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opened | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 was | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 think | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 think | obj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 opened | advcl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lady Mary | a brave one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Mary | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | past | Mary | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Mary | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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