The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 106
It was now too late for the one of them, but she peeled the other and then ate it too.
Who acts: wish, woman · What happens: be, peel, eat · To what, where: other, wish
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 late | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 late | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 peeled | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 peeled | nsubj |
| 14 | peeled | peel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peeled | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ate | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 ate | advmod |
| 19 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 peeled | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ate | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 ate | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wish | now | for the one of onions; late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | peel | past | woman | the other | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Source | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | woman not said here | wish | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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