The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 32

I knew it!' she cried, weeping bitterly, till the mink told her rudely that if she wanted to make so much noise she had better do it outside as he liked to be quiet.

Who acts: I, help, mink, much noise, Wolf · What happens: know, cry, weep, tell, want, make · To what, where: skin, help, much noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, help, mink, much noise), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
9	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
10	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	9 weeping	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mink	det
14	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 noise	amod
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 noise	acl:relcl
29	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 do	punct
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	obj
32	outside	outside	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 liked	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 liked	nsubj
35	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 do	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	38 quiet	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 quiet	cop
38	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 liked	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	skin			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	help				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	gerund	help not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the mink		help	rudely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	want a condition, not said to happen	past	help				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	help not said here	much noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
7	have	past	help	much noise not said here			tree rules
8	do	infinitive	much noise not said here	skin		outside property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
9	like	past	Wolf				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
10	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here			quiet property	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 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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