The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 39
Master Peter, who was well used to this sort of talk, did not disturb himself, but waited till the storm blew over, then he said calmly:
Who acts: Master Peter, storm, Peter · What happens: use, not disturb, wait, blow over, say, sort · To what, where: Master Peter, Peter, talk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master Peter, storm, Peter), 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 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Peter | compound |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 disturb | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 used | advmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sort | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 talk | case |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disturb | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 disturb | advmod |
| 16 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 disturb | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waited | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 waited | cc |
| 20 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disturb | parataxis |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 blew | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 storm | det |
| 23 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blew | nsubj |
| 24 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 waited | advcl |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 blew | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 said | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 waited | conj |
| 30 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 disturb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | Master Peter | to this sort of talk; well property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not disturb | past · do-support | Master Peter | Peter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | blow over | past | the storm | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | then | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | sort | talk | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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