The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 131

Of course it was a smaller place than upstairs, but it was more comfortable, for I wasn’t chased about and teased by the children as I had been before.

Who acts: course, I · What happens: be, not chase, tease · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, I), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	7 place	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 place	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 upstairs	case
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	7 place	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 comfortable	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 comfortable	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comfortable	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 comfortable	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 comfortable	advmod
15	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chased	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 chased	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 chased	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 chased	aux:pass
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 chased	advmod
21	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 comfortable	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 chased	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 teased	cc
24	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 chased	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 children	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 children	det
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 teased	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 before	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 before	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 before	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 before	cop
32	before	before	ADV	_	24 teased	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	course		of a smaller place	tree rules
2	is	past	course		comfortable property	tree rules
3	not chase	past · passive		I	about property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	tease	participle			by the children	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past · perfect	I		before property	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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