The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 50
But it took no notice, and just grew and grew; there it stood fresh and green in winter and summer, and all who saw it said, ‘What a beautiful tree!’
Who acts: it, notice · What happens: take, grow, stand, see, say · To what, where: notice · Speech: someone speaks here
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, notice), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 notice | det |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 grew | advmod |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 stood | expl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stood | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 green | cc |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fresh | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 winter | case |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 summer | cc |
| 22 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 winter | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 said | ccomp |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 all | acl:relcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 What | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 What | punct |
| 32 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 said | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tree | det |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tree | amod |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 What | nsubj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | grow | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | notice | there | winter | fresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 5 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | notice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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