The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 17

The air resounded with their purring, which meant that they were pleased with their new maid, but Lizina had not yet learned to understand their language, and often she did not know what they wanted her to do.

Who acts: air, Cats, Lizina · What happens: resound, mean, be, not learn, understand, not know · To what, where: air, language, Lizina · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, Cats, Lizina), 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 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meant	nsubj
3	resounded	resound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 air	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 purring	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 purring	nmod:poss
6	purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resounded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 meant	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 meant	nsubj
9	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 pleased	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pleased	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pleased	cop
13	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meant	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 maid	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 maid	nmod:poss
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maid	amod
17	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pleased	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 learned	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 learned	cc
20	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 learned	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 learned	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 learned	advmod
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 learned	advmod
24	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 meant	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 understand	mark
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 learned	xcomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 language	nmod:poss
28	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 understand	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 know	cc
31	often	often	ADV	_	35 know	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 know	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 know	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 know	advmod
35	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 learned	conj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 wanted	obj
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wanted	nsubj
38	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 know	ccomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wanted	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 wanted	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resound	participle		the air not said here		with Cats's purring	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with purring=Theme
2	mean	past	the air				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Cats = cat			with Cats's new maid; pleased property	tree rules
4	not learn	past · perfect	Lizina		yet		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	understand	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here	Cats's language			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
6	not know	past · do-support	Lizina			often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	want	past	Cats = cat	Lizina			tree rules
8	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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