The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 25
This was his sister now, he said; and the whole story now came out of how the other had behaved to her.
Who acts: This, eye, whole story, other · What happens: be, say, come out, behave · To what, where: sister, story · 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 (This, eye, whole story, other), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sister | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 came | advmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 behaved | mark |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 behaved | mark |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 behaved | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 behaved | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 behaved | aux |
| 22 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 behaved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | eye's sister | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the whole story | now | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | behave | past · perfect | the other | story | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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