The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 96

They—they—they were so—so troublesome—that I could not manage them at all.

Who acts: sheep, I · What happens: be, not manage · To what, where: sheep, all

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 they	nsubj
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 They	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 troublesome	nsubj
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 they	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 troublesome	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 troublesome	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 troublesome	advmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 troublesome	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 troublesome	advmod
10	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 manage	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 manage	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 manage	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 manage	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 manage	advmod
16	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 troublesome	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 manage	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 manage	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 troublesome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sheep					troublesome property	tree rules
2	not manage	could	I	sheep		all			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme at all=Eventuality

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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