The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 52

The farm servants wondered at this order, and exclaimed: “But surely, sir, that would be a pity?”

Who acts: farm servants, that · What happens: wonder, exclaim, be · To what, where: order, sir, pity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farm servants, 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	3 servants	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 servants	compound
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wondered	nsubj
4	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wondered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 exclaimed	cc
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wondered	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
13	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 sir	cc
14	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 sir	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
16	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exclaimed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pity	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 pity	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pity	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 pity	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pity	det
22	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sir	appos
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 pity	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	the farm servants		this order	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the farm servants not said here	sir		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sir=Topic
3	is a in a quote	would	that	a pity		tree rules

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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