The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 32

To this she was well content to answer ‘Yes.’

Who acts: this · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: well content

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 content	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 content	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	cop
5	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 content	amod
6	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 answer	mark
8	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 content	acl
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Yes	punct
10	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 answer	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 content	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	well content					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality

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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