The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 78
She was delighted to hear that it was true enough about Peter Bull--that he was no other than their own bull-calf.
Who acts: wife, peasant, Bull · What happens: be, hear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, peasant, Bull), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 delighted | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 true | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hear | ccomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 true | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 Bull | case |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bull | compound |
| 13 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 true | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 other | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 other | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 other | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 other | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 delighted | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 calf | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 calf | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 calf | amod |
| 23 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 calf | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bull | punct |
| 25 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 other | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | peasant | about Peter Bull; enough, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Bull | than dollars's own bull calf; other 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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