The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 69
Girouette, who never stopped to think or to make inquiries, drew such a delightful picture of Minon-Minette that Grimace determined to spare no pains to bring about the marriage, and accordingly Fluet was presented at court.
Who acts: Girouette, Grimace · What happens: not stop, think, make, draw, determine, spare · To what, where: inquiries, delightful picture, pains, Fluet, court
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 (Girouette, Grimace), 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 | Girouette | Girouette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | conj |
| 11 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | parataxis |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 picture | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 picture | det |
| 16 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 picture | amod |
| 17 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Minon | case |
| 19 | Minon | Minon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 picture | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Minette | punct |
| 21 | Minette | Minette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Minon | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 determined | mark |
| 23 | Grimace | Grimace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 determined | nsubj |
| 24 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drew | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 spare | mark |
| 26 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 determined | xcomp |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 pains | det |
| 28 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spare | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 bring | mark |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 spare | advcl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 marriage | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 marriage | det |
| 33 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 presented | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 presented | cc |
| 36 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 39 presented | advmod |
| 37 | Fluet | Fluet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 presented | aux:pass |
| 39 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 drew | conj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 court | case |
| 41 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 presented | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past | Girouette | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Girouette not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Girouette not said here | inquiries | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | such delightful picture of Minon and Minette | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | |||||
| 5 | determine | past | Grimace | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | spare | to-infinitive | Grimace not said here | no pains | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | ||||
| 7 | bring | to-infinitive | Grimace not said here | about the marriage | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | present | past · passive | Fluet | court | accordingly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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