The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 136
What a torment her stout old attendants and servants sometime thought her when she insisted on staying awake, and making them chatter or do something, when they could hardly keep their eyes open!
Who acts: garden, attendants · What happens: think, insist, stay, make, chatter, do · To what, where: torment, attendants, something, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, attendants), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 torment | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 torment | det |
| 3 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attendants | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attendants | amod |
| 7 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 torment | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 servants | cc |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 attendants | conj |
| 10 | sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 thought | advmod |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 insisted | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 insisted | nsubj |
| 15 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 staying | mark |
| 17 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 insisted | advcl |
| 18 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 staying | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 making | cc |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 staying | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 making | obj |
| 23 | chatter | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 making | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 do | cc |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 chatter | conj |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 keep | punct |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 keep | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 keep | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 keep | aux |
| 31 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 32 keep | advmod |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 insisted | advcl |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keep | obj |
| 35 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keep | xcomp |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | what torment garden's stout old attendants and servants | sometime property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | garden | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay | gerund | garden not said here | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | garden not said here | attendants = attendant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chatter | infinitive | attendants = attendant not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | infinitive | attendants = attendant not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | keep | could | attendants = attendant | attendants's eyes | hardly, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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