The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 49
She left out nothing, even telling him the story of her husband’s heart.
Who acts: friend · What happens: leave out, tell · To what, where: nothing, story, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 left | compound:prt |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 telling | advmod |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 left | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | past | friend | nothing | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | friend not said here | the story of friend's husband's heart | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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