The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 48

She did not use it when she was asleep, and on whatever object in the room he put it that thing began to speak, and spoke out its thoughts and feelings just as well as the lady to whom it belonged.

Who acts: wife, room, thing, butter · What happens: not use, be, put, begin, speak, speak out · To what, where: butter, object, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, room, thing, butter), 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	4 use	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 use	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 object	case
13	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	14 object	det
14	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 object	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 speak	mark
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 spoke	compound:prt
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 thoughts	nmod:poss
31	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spoke	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 feelings	cc
33	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thoughts	conj
34	just	just	ADV	_	39 lady	advmod
35	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	39 lady	cc
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 as	fixed
37	as	as	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lady	det
39	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoke	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 whom	case
41	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 lady	nmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 belonged	nsubj
43	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 whom	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not use	past · do-support	wife	butter			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	wife			asleep property	tree rules
3	put	past	room	butter	whatever object in the room		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on object=Destination
4	begin	past	thing				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	thing not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	speak out speech: other	past		butter's thoughts and feelings		the lady obl	tree rules
7	belong	past	butter				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	think		butter				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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