The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 40

‘Oh, you are learning,’ replied the old woman, ‘and it isn’t bad for a first lesson.’

Who acts: you, bundle · What happens: learn, reply, not be · To what, where: old woman

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bundle), 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	_	6 learning	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 learning	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 learning	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learning	aux
6	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 learning	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bad	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bad	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bad	cop
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bad	advmod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 lesson	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lesson	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bad	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 learning	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 learning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	you			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reply speech: assert	past		the old woman		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	not is	present	bundle		for a first lesson; bad property	tree rules

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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