The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 90
And, what was worse, she did not find the little ones either.
Who acts: idea · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: little ones
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 (idea), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 worse | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 find | advmod |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worse | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 find | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not find | past · do-support | idea | the little ones | either property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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