The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 17

No one, however, knew what was to be done with it; but after what they had heard they knew that there was something uncommon about it, so they took good care of it.

Who acts: one, others, something, way · What happens: know, do, hear, be, take, care · To what, where: good care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, others, something, way), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 knew	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 done	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux:pass
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 was	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 heard	mark
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 heard	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 knew	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 knew	ccomp
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 was	nsubj
27	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 something	amod
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 uncommon	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 took	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 care	amod
35	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 care	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one			however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	no one not said here			with way	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	hear	past · perfect	others = other				tree rules
4	know	past	others = other				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	something		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	past	others = other	good care of way			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	care		way				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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