More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 62
The butler put in, "That was nothing to what she served me," and he told of the shutters clapping all night.
Who acts: That, girl, butler, shutters · What happens: put in, be, serve, tell, clap · To what, where: butler, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (That, girl, butler, shutters), 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 butler | det |
| 2 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 butler | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 nothing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | cop |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 butler | appos |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 served | nsubj |
| 13 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 served | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 shutters | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shutters | det |
| 22 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 told | obl |
| 23 | clapping | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 shutters | acl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clapping | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in | participle | the butler not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | That | nothing | to the butler | tree rules | |||
| 3 | serve in a quote | past | girl | the butler = butler | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the butler | of the shutters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | clap | gerund | the shutters not said here | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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