The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 69

It was not a bad guess, but the fir-tree had real bark-ache from sheer longing, and bark-ache in trees is just as bad as head-ache in human beings.

Who acts: wood, fir tree, bark ache · What happens: not be, ache, be · To what, where: bad guess, sheer longing

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 (wood, fir tree, bark ache), 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	6 guess	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 guess	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guess	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guess	amod
6	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ache	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 ache	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ache	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ache	aux
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ache	amod
15	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ache	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bark	punct
17	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guess	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 longing	case
19	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 longing	compound
20	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ache	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ache	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ache	cc
23	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ache	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bark	punct
25	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bad	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 trees	case
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ache	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bad	cop
29	just	just	ADV	_	31 bad	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 bad	advmod
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guess	parataxis
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 ache	case
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ache	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 head	punct
35	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bad	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 beings	case
37	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 beings	amod
38	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ache	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	wood	a bad guess			tree rules
2	ache	past	the fir tree		sheer longing		tree rules
3	is	present	bark ache in trees			as head ache in human beings; bad property	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 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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