The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 99
And it rejoiced to think that next day it would be decked out again with candles, toys, glittering ornaments, and fruits.
Who acts: crowd · What happens: rejoice, think, deck out, glitter · To what, where: fruits, crowd, ornaments · 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 (crowd), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rejoiced | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rejoiced | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 decked | mark |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 decked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 decked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 decked | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decked | aux:pass |
| 12 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 decked | compound:prt |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 decked | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 candles | case |
| 16 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 decked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 toys | punct |
| 18 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 candles | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glittering | punct |
| 20 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 decked | advcl |
| 21 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glittering | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fruits | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fruits | cc |
| 24 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rejoiced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | crowd | fruits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | crowd not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deck out | would · passive | crowd | again; day | with candles and toys | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with candle=Theme | |||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | ornaments | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ornament=Theme |
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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