The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 29

She was very proud of their beauty, and perhaps talked about them to her neighbours more than she need have done, till at last everybody for miles round knew where the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country-side were to be found.

Who acts: Dove · What happens: be, talk, need, do, know, find · To what, where: more, everybody, three prettiest baby doves

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dove), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 beauty	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beauty	nmod:poss
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talked	cc
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 talked	advmod
11	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	parataxis
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 talked	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 neighbours	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbours	nmod:poss
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 more	obl
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 talked	obj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 need	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 need	nsubj
20	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 more	advcl
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 need	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 everybody	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 everybody	amod
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 knew	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 miles	case
29	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 everybody	nmod
30	round	round	ADV	_	31 knew	advmod
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 talked	conj
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 found	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 doves	det
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 doves	nummod
35	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 doves	amod
36	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 doves	compound
37	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 found	nsubj:pass
38	in	in	ADP	_	43 side	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 side	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 side	amod
41	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 side	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 country	punct
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 doves	nmod
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 found	aux:pass
45	to	to	PART	_	47 found	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 found	aux:pass
47	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 knew	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dove			of Leroux's beauty; proud property	tree rules
2	talk	past		more		about Leroux; perhaps property	tree rules
3	need	present	Dove				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	infinitive · perfect	Dove not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past			everybody	round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	find	past · passive		the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country side			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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