The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 46
The neighbour wives knew all about this, and were greatly amused at it.
Who acts: neighbour wives · What happens: know, amuse · To what, where: neighbourhood
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 (neighbour wives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wives | det |
| 2 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wives | compound |
| 3 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 knew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amused | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 amused | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amused | aux:pass |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 12 amused | advmod |
| 12 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knew | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 amused | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the neighbour wives | about this; all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | amuse | past · passive | the neighbour wives not said here | neighbourhood | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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