The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 31
The cottage was always full of village children, for they amused Snowflake, and there was nothing in the world they would not have done to amuse her.
Who acts: cottage, children, nothing · What happens: be, amuse, not do · To what, where: Snowflake
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 (cottage, children, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cottage | det |
| 2 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 full | advmod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 children | compound |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amused | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 amused | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 amused | nsubj |
| 12 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 13 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 amused | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 was | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 done | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 was | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 amuse | mark |
| 28 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 amuse | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cottage | of village children; always, full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | amuse | past | children = child | Snowflake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus snowflake=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | would · perfect | children = child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | Snowflake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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