The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 35
Gon had long felt that it was time for him to find a wife, for all the ladies in the neighbourhood paid him so much attention that it made him quite shy; but he was not easy to please, and did not care about any of them.
Who acts: Gon, mistress, ladies · What happens: feel, be, find, pay, make, not be · To what, where: time, wife, Gon
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Gon, mistress, ladies), 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 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | advmod |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 time | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ladies | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ladies | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ladies | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ladies | det |
| 19 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 paid | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 neighbourhood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 neighbourhood | det |
| 22 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ladies | nmod |
| 23 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 paid | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 attention | amod |
| 27 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 paid | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 made | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 paid | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 shy | advmod |
| 33 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 made | xcomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 easy | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 easy | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 easy | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 easy | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 easy | advmod |
| 39 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 please | mark |
| 41 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 easy | csubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 care | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 care | cc |
| 44 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 care | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 care | advmod |
| 46 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 please | conj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 any | case |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 care | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 any | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect | Gon | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | mistress | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Gon | a wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | all ladies in the neighbourhood | Gon | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset | ||||
| 5 | make | past | mistress | Gon | shy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | |||
| 6 | not is | past | Gon | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | please | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | not care | past · do-support | about any | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about any=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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