The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 173
As she was always being teased about her complexion, she got as noisy and cross as a titmouse.
Who acts: woman · What happens: tease, get · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 teased | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 teased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teased | aux:pass |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 teased | advmod |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 teased | aux:pass |
| 6 | teased | tease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 got | advcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 complexion | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teased | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 teased | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 noisy | advmod |
| 14 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cross | cc |
| 16 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noisy | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 titmouse | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 titmouse | det |
| 19 | titmouse | titmouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noisy | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past · passive | woman | about woman's complexion; always property | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | woman | noisy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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