The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 20
But the fact was that she was growing quite tired of having no one to scold.
Who acts: fact · What happens: grow, have, scold · To what, where: fact, one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact), 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 | _ | 10 tired | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 growing | aux |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 growing | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 growing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 growing | aux |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fact | acl |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 tired | advmod |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tired | advcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 having | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 scold | mark |
| 16 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 one | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · progressive | fact | the fact not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fact=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 3 | scold | to-infinitive | no one not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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