The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 82
Even then she was not satisfied, and was still grumbling and muttering, so they asked her what was the matter.
Who acts: duchess, officers, matter · What happens: not be, grumble, mutter, ask, be · To what, where: duchess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duchess, officers, matter), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grumbling | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grumbling | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grumbling | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 grumbling | advmod |
| 11 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 satisfied | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 muttering | cc |
| 13 | muttering | mutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 grumbling | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 asked | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | duchess | then | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | past · progressive | duchess not said here | still | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | duchess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | officers = officer | duchess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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