The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 13
This she did with so much spirit that all the guests listened with breathless interest.
Who acts: This, guests · What happens: do, listen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, guests), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 listened | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 guests | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guests | det |
| 11 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 listened | nsubj |
| 12 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 interest | case |
| 14 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 interest | amod |
| 15 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | with much spirit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | all guests | with breathless interest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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