The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
But the girl was so busy finding a place for it to stand that she took little notice of her mother.
Who acts: girl, place · What happens: be, find, stand, take, notice · To what, where: place, little notice, mother
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 busy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 busy | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finding | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 stand | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stand | mark |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 place | acl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stand | advcl |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 notice | amod |
| 18 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 notice | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the girl not said here | a place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand | to-infinitive | place | a place not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | girl | little notice of girl's mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | notice | girl's mother | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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