The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 6
‘Why not?’ replied Marie, who happened to be in a very good temper; ‘it might amuse us a little.
Who acts: Marie, temper · What happens: not reply, happen, be, amuse · To what, where: good temper, us
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 (Marie, temper), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 replied | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Marie | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 temper | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 temper | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 temper | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 temper | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 temper | amod |
| 17 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happened | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 amuse | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 amuse | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 amuse | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 amuse | aux |
| 22 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 amuse | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 amuse | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past | Marie | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | Marie | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Marie not said here | a good temper | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amuse | might | temper | us | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=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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