The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 42
No one thought of finding any faults, till at length an old woman, who had been walking through the rooms with a crowd of people, suddenly exclaimed, ‘Yes, it is a splendid palace, but there is still something it needs!’
Who acts: one thought, old woman, thought, palace · What happens: find, walk, exclaim, be, need · To what, where: faults, rooms, length, splendid palace, something
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thought, old woman, thought, palace), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thought | nummod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 something | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 finding | mark |
| 5 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 thought | acl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 faults | det |
| 7 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 length | punct |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finding | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walking | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 walking | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 walking | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 walking | aux |
| 19 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 woman | acl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 rooms | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rooms | det |
| 22 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 walking | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 crowd | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crowd | det |
| 25 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walking | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crowd | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 exclaimed | punct |
| 29 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 30 exclaimed | advmod |
| 30 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 length | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 palace | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 palace | punct |
| 33 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 39 palace | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Yes | punct |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 palace | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 palace | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 38 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 palace | amod |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 length | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 is | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 is | cc |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 is | expl |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 something | cop |
| 44 | still | still | ADV | _ | 43 is | advmod |
| 45 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 needs | nsubj |
| 47 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 something | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 something | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | no one thought not said here | any faults | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | a old woman | the rooms | with a crowd of people | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | participle | length not said here | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | thought | a splendid palace | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | no one thought | something | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | need | present | palace | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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