The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 133
It was no wonder that the woman was angry about this, but the man only said, ‘Ah, if you only knew what I have learned.’
Who acts: money, woman, man, you, I · What happens: be, say, know, learn · To what, where: wonder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, woman, man, you), 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 | 4 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 wonder | det |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 angry | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 angry | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 angry | cop |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wonder | acl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 angry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 20 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 25 knew | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ah | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 knew | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 knew | advmod |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 learned | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 learned | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 learned | aux |
| 29 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 knew | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | money | no wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the woman | no wonder not said here | about this; angry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | learn | present · perfect | I | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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