The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 175

The window would not open; he couldn’t see the stove which he thought was such a lovely lady.

Who acts: window, stove · What happens: not open, not see, think, be · To what, where: lovely lady · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (window, stove), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 open	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stove	det
12	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lady	nsubj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 thought	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stove	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lady	cop
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lady	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lady	det
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lady	amod
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not open	would	the window		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	could	window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	the stove		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the stove	such lovely lady	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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