The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 119

“What an idea!” said Niels, who was growing impatient at the slow progress they were making.

Who acts: idea, Niels · What happens: idea, say, grow, make · To what, where: slow progress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, Niels), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 idea	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 idea	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 idea	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 idea	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 growing	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 growing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 growing	aux
12	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Niels	acl
13	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 growing	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 progress	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 progress	det
16	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 progress	amod
17	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 impatient	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 making	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 making	aux
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 progress	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	idea in a quote					tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a idea			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past · progressive	Niels		impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past · progressive	Niels	the slow progress not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product

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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