The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 4
She felt quite pleased with herself, though she had had plenty to amuse her, as everybody who passed by had stopped and had a chat with her.
Who acts: girl · What happens: feel, have, amuse, pass, stop · To what, where: plenty, girl, chat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 pleased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 amuse | mark |
| 14 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 plenty | acl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 amuse | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 everybody | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 everybody | case |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 had | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 stopped | mark |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stopped | aux |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 passed | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stopped | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chat | det |
| 27 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 chat | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | girl | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | girl | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stop | past · perfect | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | a chat | with girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=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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