The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 11
‘Well, well,’ said she, ‘it was more than I would have expected of you to get all the feathers put in order so nicely.
Who acts: witch, dove, feathers · What happens: say, be, expect, get, put · To what, where: I, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, dove, feathers), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 more | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 expected | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 expected | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expected | aux |
| 18 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 more | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 expected | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expected | advcl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 feathers | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feathers | det |
| 25 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 nicely | advmod |
| 30 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 26 put | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | dove | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | would · perfect · passive | I | of you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | put | past | all feathers | order | nicely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination |
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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