The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 90
Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he saw that Felicia had succeeded in finding her pinks he was so angry that he dragged her out into the garden and shut the door upon her.
Who acts: Bruno, Felicia · What happens: work, not improve, see, succeed, find, be · To what, where: temper, pinks, Felicia, garden, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruno, Felicia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 improved | advcl |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Working | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 heat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heat | det |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Working | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 improved | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 improved | advmod |
| 8 | improved | improve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 temper | nmod:poss |
| 10 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 improved | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 improved | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 succeeded | mark |
| 17 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 succeeded | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 succeeded | aux |
| 19 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 finding | mark |
| 21 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 angry | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pinks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 finding | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 angry | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 angry | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 angry | advmod |
| 27 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 succeeded | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 dragged | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dragged | nsubj |
| 30 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 angry | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dragged | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 dragged | compound:prt |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 garden | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 garden | det |
| 35 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dragged | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shut | cc |
| 37 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 succeeded | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 door | det |
| 39 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shut | obj |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 shut | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 improved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | in the heat; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not improve | past · perfect | Bruno's temper | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent temper=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Bruno | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | succeed | past · perfect | Felicia | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | Bruno not said here | Felicia's pinks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pink=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Bruno | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | drag out | past | Bruno | Felicia | the garden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 8 | shut | infinitive | Felicia not said here | the door | upon Felicia | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 9 | temper | Bruno | nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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