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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37

And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire.

Who acts: giant, sorts, Kisa · What happens: be, call, not notice, steal, upset, sort · To what, where: Ingibjorg, Kisa, dark corner, whole bag, great pot, names · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, sorts, Kisa), 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

ccnsubjccnmod:possconjcopadvmodadvclobjdetobjcasenmodcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctmarknsubjadvmodconjobjxcompcasedetamodoblpunctccconjdetamodobjcasenmodcasedetamodoblcasedetoblpunctrootAndCCONJhePRONandCCONJhisPRONwifeNOUNwereAUXsoADVbusyADJcallingVERBIngibjorgPROPNallDETsortsNOUNofADPnamesNOUNforADPherPRONbadADJbehaviourNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJtheyPRONneverADVnoticedVERBKisaPROPNstealingVERBintoADPaDETdarkADJcornerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJupsettingVERBaDETwholeADJbagNOUNofADPsaltNOUNintoADPtheDETgreatADJpotNOUNbeforeADPtheDETfireNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_8 busycc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 busynsubj
3andandCCONJ_5 wifecc
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 wifenmod:poss
5wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing2 heconj
6werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 busycop
7sosoADV_8 busyadvmod
8busybusyADJDegree=Posrootroot
9callingcallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 busyadvcl
10IngibjorgIngibjorgPROPNNumber=Sing9 callingobj
11allallDETPronType=Tot12 sortsdet
12sortssortNOUNNumber=Plur9 callingobj
13ofofADP_14 namescase
14namesnameNOUNNumber=Plur12 sortsnmod
15forforADP_18 behaviourcase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 behaviournmod:poss
17badbadADJDegree=Pos18 behaviouramod
18behaviourbehaviourNOUNNumber=Sing14 namesnmod
19,,PUNCT_23 noticedpunct
20thatthatSCONJ_23 noticedmark
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 noticednsubj
22neverneverADVPronType=Neg23 noticedadvmod
23noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 busyconj
24KisaKisaPROPNNumber=Sing23 noticedobj
25stealingstealVERBVerbForm=Ger23 noticedxcomp
26intointoADP_29 cornercase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 cornerdet
28darkdarkADJDegree=Pos29 corneramod
29cornercornerNOUNNumber=Sing25 stealingobl
30,,PUNCT_32 upsettingpunct
31andandCCONJ_32 upsettingcc
32upsettingupsetVERBVerbForm=Ger25 stealingconj
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 bagdet
34wholewholeADJDegree=Pos35 bagamod
35bagbagNOUNNumber=Sing32 upsettingobj
36ofofADP_37 saltcase
37saltsaltNOUNNumber=Sing35 bagnmod
38intointoADP_41 potcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 potdet
40greatgreatADJDegree=Pos41 potamod
41potpotNOUNNumber=Sing32 upsettingobl
42beforebeforeADP_44 firecase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 firedet
44firefireNOUNNumber=Sing32 upsettingobl
45..PUNCT_8 busypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastgiantbusy propertytree rules
2callgerundgiant not said hereIngibjorgvn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ingibjorg=Theme sort=Result
3not noticepastsorts = sortKisatree rules
4stealgerundKisa not said herea dark cornervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5upsetgerundKisa not said herea whole bag of saltthe great potbefore the firevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bag=Experiencer
6sortnames for Kisa's bad behaviournom sort «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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