The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 44
And that sounded rude as far as the tub was concerned, but the grocer laughed, and so did the student.
Who acts: that, tub, grocer · What happens: sound, be, laugh, do · To what, where: student
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, tub, grocer), 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 sounded | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounded | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 sounded | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 concerned | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tub | det |
| 9 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concerned | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 concerned | cop |
| 11 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 far | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grocer | det |
| 15 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounded | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 student | det |
| 22 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | that | far, rude property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the tub | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the grocer | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the grocer not said here | the student | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent student=Eventuality |
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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