The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 35

They were greatly annoyed at this, for there were only the three of them to share it, and none of them was willing to pay the extra penny.

Who acts: Wives, three, none · What happens: be, share, pay · To what, where: this, pint, extra penny

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 (Wives, three, none), 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	4 annoyed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 annoyed	advmod
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 annoyed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 three	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 three	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 were	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 three	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 share	mark
17	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 were	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 share	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 willing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 willing	cc
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 willing	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 none	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 willing	cop
25	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 annoyed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pay	mark
27	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 willing	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 penny	det
29	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 penny	amod
30	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pay	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wives = wife		this	annoyed, greatly property	tree rules
2	be	past	the three of Wives		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	share	to-infinitive	the three of Wives not said here	pint			tree rules
4	is	past	none			willing property	tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	none not said here	the extra penny			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset

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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