The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 4
It took no pleasure in the sunshine, nor in the birds, nor in the rose-coloured clouds that sailed over it at dawn and at sunset.
Who acts: It, coloured clouds · What happens: take, sail · To what, where: pleasure, sunshine
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, coloured clouds), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 pleasure | det |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sunshine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sunshine | det |
| 7 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 birds | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 birds | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 birds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clouds | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 clouds | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 17 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coloured | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 19 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clouds | amod |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sailed | nsubj |
| 22 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sailed | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 dawn | case |
| 26 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sailed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sunset | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 sunset | case |
| 29 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dawn | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | no pleasure | the sunshine | in the birds; in the coloured clouds | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in sunshine=Location | ||
| 2 | sail | past | the coloured clouds | sunshine | dawn | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory |
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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