The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 82
He could do that quite well, for all the Turks were dressed just as he was-in a dressing-gown and slippers.
Who acts: bottom · What happens: do, dress, be · To what, where: that, Turks, dressing gown
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Turks | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Turks | det |
| 11 | Turks | turk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 do | advcl |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 gown | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 gown | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gown | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gown | cop |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 gown | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 gown | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gown | det |
| 21 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gown | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 dressing | punct |
| 23 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slippers | cc |
| 25 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gown | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | bottom | that | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | all Turks | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | bottom | a dressing gown and slippers | tree rules |
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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