The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 63
‘It is enough that you should have made the offer,’ replied the old woman; and she added, holding out a skein of thread, ‘Take this; one day you will be thankful for it, and when it becomes useless your difficulties will be past.’
Who acts: bundle, woman, you, useless difficulties · What happens: be, make, reply, add, hold out, take · To what, where: you, old woman, skein, this
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 (bundle, woman, you, useless difficulties), 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 | _ | 4 enough | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 replied | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 offer | det |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 added | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 added | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 added | nsubj |
| 21 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 holding | punct |
| 23 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 added | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 holding | compound:prt |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 skein | det |
| 26 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holding | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 thread | case |
| 28 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skein | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Take | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Take | punct |
| 31 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 added | advcl |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 Take | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 thankful | punct |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 day | nummod |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thankful | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 thankful | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 thankful | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 thankful | cop |
| 39 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enough | parataxis |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 thankful | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 becomes | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 becomes | cc |
| 44 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 46 becomes | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 becomes | nsubj |
| 46 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | conj |
| 47 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 difficulties | amod |
| 48 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 difficulties | nmod:poss |
| 49 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 past | nsubj |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 past | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 past | cop |
| 52 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 becomes | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 past | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bundle | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | should · perfect · passive | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary offer=Product | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | woman | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hold out | gerund | woman not said here | a skein of thread | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skein=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | woman not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | future | you | day | for bundle; thankful property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | become | present | bundle | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | is | future | your useless difficulties | past 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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