The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 105

Several of the servant girls heard the conversation, and were greatly surprised at it, and thought that it would be worth while to catch the bird next evening and see into the matter a little more closely.

Who acts: Several servant girls, it · What happens: hear, surprise, think, be, catch, see · To what, where: conversation, bird, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several servant girls, it), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 servant	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girls	compound
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 conversation	det
8	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 surprised	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surprised	aux:pass
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	13 surprised	advmod
13	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heard	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 surprised	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 worth	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worth	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 worth	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 worth	cop
23	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	ccomp
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 catch	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 catch	mark
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 worth	csubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obj
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 evening	amod
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obl:unmarked
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 catch	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 matter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 matter	det
35	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 little	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 more	obl:unmarked
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 closely	advmod
39	closely	closely	ADV	_	35 matter	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Several servant girls	the conversation				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
2	surprise	past · passive	Several servant girls not said here		conversation		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	think speech: other	past	Several servant girls not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	it				worth property	tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive		the bird		evening		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	see	infinitive			the matter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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