The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 69
But the other two were very uneasy, for they felt sure something must be wrong, and the sooner they parted company with Ciccu the better.
Who acts: other two, brothers, something · What happens: be, feel, part · To what, where: company
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other two, brothers, something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 uneasy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 two | amod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 uneasy | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uneasy | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 uneasy | advmod |
| 7 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 felt | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uneasy | parataxis |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 wrong | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrong | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wrong | cop |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 parted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 parted | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sooner | det |
| 20 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 parted | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 parted | nsubj |
| 22 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parted | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Ciccu | case |
| 25 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 parted | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 better | det |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 Ciccu | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 uneasy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the other two | uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | brothers = brother | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | must | something | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | part | past | brothers = brother | company | with Ciccu; soon property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |
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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