The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 32

Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis, who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover.

Who acts: this, sort, Barbaik, Tephany, young Denis · What happens: be, guess, find, talk, anger · To what, where: sort, anger, Tephany, young Denis, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, sort, Barbaik, Tephany), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sort	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sort	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 easy	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 person	case
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 person	appos
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 easy	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	cop
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 guess	mark
16	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 easy	csubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 anger	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 anger	nmod:poss
19	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guess	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 found	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	nummod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl:unmarked
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 guess	advcl
25	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 found	obj
26	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 found	xcomp
27	outside	outside	ADP	_	29 cowhouse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cowhouse	det
29	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talking	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Denis	case
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Denis	amod
32	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 talking	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nothing	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 nothing	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 nothing	cop
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 Denis	appos
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 nothing	amod
38	than	than	ADP	_	41 labourer	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 labourer	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 labourer	compound
41	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 more	obl
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 village	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 village	det
44	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 labourer	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Plover	case
46	Plover	Plover	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 village	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	this	the sort				of person	tree rules
2	is	past	the sort					easy property	tree rules
3	guess	to-infinitive				Barbaik's anger			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at anger=Value
4	find	past	Barbaik	Tephany			day		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tephany=Attribute clause=Theme
5	talk	gerund	Tephany not said here		young Denis			outside the cowhouse	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to denis=Co-Agent
6	is a	past	young Denis	nothing					tree rules
7	anger		Barbaik						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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