The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 59
She chattered to herself so fast and clattered her kettle so loudly that you would have thought that a whole campful of gipsies must be coming round the next corner.
Who acts: woman, you, whole campful · What happens: chatter, clatter, think, come · To what, where: woman, kettle, next corner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, whole campful), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chattered | nsubj |
| 2 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 herself | case |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 chattered | obl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 chattered | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clattered | cc |
| 8 | clattered | clatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chattered | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kettle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clattered | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 loudly | advmod |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 clattered | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | aux |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 clattered | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 coming | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 campful | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 campful | amod |
| 21 | campful | campful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gipsies | case |
| 23 | gipsies | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 campful | nmod |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 coming | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 coming | aux |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | advcl |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 corner | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 corner | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 corner | amod |
| 30 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coming | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | past | woman | woman | fast property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | clatter | past | woman not said here | woman's kettle | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kettle=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | would · perfect | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | must · progressive | a whole campful of gipsies | the next corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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