The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 100
This they did not like at all; so after much deliberation they decided to get married.
Who acts: This, brothers · What happens: not like, decide, marry · To what, where: all
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, brothers), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 like | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 like | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 decided | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 decided | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 deliberation | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deliberation | amod |
| 12 | deliberation | deliberation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 decided | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 decided | nsubj |
| 14 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 married | mark |
| 16 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 decided | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | This | all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | brothers = brother | after much deliberation | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | brothers = brother not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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