The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 3
They were both so disagreeable and so proud that there was no living with them.
Who acts: daughters, living · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, living), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disagreeable | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disagreeable | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 disagreeable | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 disagreeable | advmod |
| 5 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 proud | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 proud | advmod |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disagreeable | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proud | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 living | det |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 living | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disagreeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughters = daughter | both, disagreeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | daughters = daughter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | no living with daughters | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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