The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 91
However, she concealed her feelings as well as she could, and bade the intruder welcome, placing before her food and wine, hoping that when she had eaten and drunk she might take her leave.
Who acts: woman, bade, intruder welcome · What happens: conceal, welcome, place, hope, eat, drink · To what, where: feelings, food, leave
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, bade, intruder welcome), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 concealed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 concealed | nsubj |
| 4 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 concealed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 concealed | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 well | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 welcome | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 welcome | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 welcome | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 welcome | det |
| 16 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 welcome | compound |
| 17 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concealed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placing | punct |
| 19 | placing | place | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 welcome | acl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placing | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wine | cc |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hoping | punct |
| 26 | hoping | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 placing | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 eaten | mark |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 eaten | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 eaten | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 eaten | aux |
| 31 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 hoping | ccomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drunk | cc |
| 33 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 eaten | conj |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 take | aux |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 eaten | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 leave | nmod:poss |
| 38 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | woman | woman's feelings | however, well property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | |||
| 2 | welcome | bade | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | place | gerund | the intruder welcome not said here | woman's food and wine | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before food=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hope | gerund | the intruder welcome not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | past · perfect | woman | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drink | participle | woman not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | take | might | woman | woman's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
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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