The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 19
They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the meantime in no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of the impatience she had to go and open the closet on the ground floor.
Who acts: neighbors, happiness, manner, impatience · What happens: cease, not extol, envy, divert, look, have · To what, where: happiness, manner, meantime, impatience, closet, ground floor
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbors, happiness, manner, impatience), 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 | 2 ceased | nsubj |
| 2 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 extol | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 extol | mark |
| 5 | extol | extol | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ceased | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 envy | cc |
| 7 | envy | envy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 extol | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 happiness | det |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envy | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happiness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 diverted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 diverted | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 meantime | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meantime | det |
| 17 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 diverted | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meantime | nmod |
| 21 | diverted | divert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happiness | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 diverted | obj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 diverted | advcl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 things | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 things | det:predet |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 things | det |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 looking | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 impatience | punct |
| 31 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 34 impatience | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 because | fixed |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 impatience | det |
| 34 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envy | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 impatience | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 go | mark |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 had | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 open | cc |
| 40 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 go | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 closet | det |
| 42 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 open | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 floor | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 floor | det |
| 45 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 floor | compound |
| 46 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 open | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | neighbors = neighbor | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not extol | to-infinitive | neighbors = neighbor not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | envy | infinitive | neighbors = neighbor not said here | the happiness of neighbors's friend | because the impatience | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | divert | past | the happiness of neighbors's friend | manner | the meantime in no way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | look | gerund | the happiness of neighbors's friend not said here | upon all rich things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon thing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | manner | the impatience not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | the impatience not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | open | infinitive | the impatience not said here | the closet | the ground floor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent closet=Theme on floor=Location |
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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