The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 95
Anyway, Grimace soon heard of it, and as she had never forgiven Minon-Minette for refusing Prince Fluet, she felt that here was her chance of revenge.
Who acts: Grimace · What happens: hear, not forgive, refuse, feel, be · To what, where: Grimace, Fluet, chance
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 (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 | Anyway | anyway | INTJ | _ | 5 heard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anyway | punct |
| 3 | Grimace | Grimace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgiven | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgiven | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 forgiven | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgiven | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 forgiven | advmod |
| 14 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | conj |
| 15 | Minon | Minon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forgiven | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Minette | punct |
| 17 | Minette | Minette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Minon | flat |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 refusing | mark |
| 19 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 forgiven | advcl |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fluet | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Fluet | Fluet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 refusing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 here | mark |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 chance | advcl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 chance | cop |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 chance | nmod:poss |
| 29 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 felt | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 revenge | case |
| 31 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chance | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Grimace | of storm; soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not forgive | past · perfect · passive | Grimace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | refuse | gerund | Fluet Prince | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluet=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Grimace | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Grimace not said here | Grimace's chance | of revenge | 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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