The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 111
Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the Council did not get through much work.
Who acts: face, Council · What happens: not be, not get through · To what, where: circumstances, much work
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, Council), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 circumstances | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 surprising | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 surprising | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprising | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 surprising | advmod |
| 7 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Council | det |
| 10 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 surprising | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | amod |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | face | this circumstances | surprising property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get through | past · do-support | the Council | much work | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
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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