The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 47
They were not particularly good, but when one is hungry anything tastes well.
Who acts: pancakes, anything · What happens: not be, be, taste · To what, where: anything
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 (pancakes, anything), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 good | advmod |
| 4 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tastes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 tastes | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 tastes | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 anything | nummod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 anything | cop |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 anything | amod |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 tastes | nsubj |
| 13 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 tastes | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | pancakes = pancake | good, particularly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | taste | present | anything | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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