The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 62
She was not very much inclined for pulling the heather, as she never was in the habit of doing any work, but she was only a minute or so at it when up came the same little fellow with the red cap, and said:
Who acts: world, habit, same little fellow · What happens: not be, pull, do, be, come, say · To what, where: heather, habit, work, minute · 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 (world, habit, same little fellow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 inclined | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inclined | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 inclined | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 inclined | advmod |
| 6 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 pulling | mark |
| 8 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 inclined | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heather | det |
| 10 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 habit | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 habit | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 habit | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 habit | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 habit | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 habit | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 habit | det |
| 18 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inclined | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 doing | mark |
| 20 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 habit | acl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 work | det |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 doing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 minute | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 minute | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 minute | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 minute | cop |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 minute | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 minute | det |
| 29 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inclined | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 so | cc |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 minute | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 minute | nmod |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 came | advmod |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 said | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fellow | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fellow | amod |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fellow | amod |
| 40 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | nsubj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 cap | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 cap | det |
| 43 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 cap | amod |
| 44 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fellow | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 said | cc |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inclined | parataxis |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | world | inclined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | world not said here | the heather | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heather=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | world | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | the habit not said here | any work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | world | a minute | work | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come | past | the same little fellow with the red cap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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