The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 72
The smith was quite confused; he knew nothing about any funeral.
Who acts: smith, trick · What happens: be, know · To what, where: nothing
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 (smith, trick), 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 | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confused | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 confused | advmod |
| 5 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 funeral | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 funeral | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the smith | confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | trick | nothing | about any funeral | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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