The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
And the worst of it was that, with so many people about, Gudu could not take the nuts from him.
Who acts: portion, many people · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: nuts
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portion, many people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 worst | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 worst | det |
| 3 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 that | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 that | cop |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 worst | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | nsubj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 Gudu | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 about | punct |
| 15 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 worst | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nuts | det |
| 20 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | portion | of that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | could | many people Gudu | the nuts | from Gudu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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