The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 52
The pillows were soft and full instead of being empty, which surprised her, but that did not content her.
Who acts: pillows, that · What happens: be, surprise, not content · To what, where: ogress
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pillows, that), 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 pillows | det |
| 2 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soft | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | cop |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 full | cc |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soft | conj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 10 empty | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 empty | aux |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soft | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprised | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 surprised | nsubj |
| 13 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 surprised | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 content | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 content | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 content | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 content | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 content | advmod |
| 20 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 soft | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 content | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pillows | instead empty; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the pillows not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | surprise | past | ogress | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not content | past · do-support | that | ogress | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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: «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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