The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 88

When she came later on with the picture book, he said that it was only fit for babies, and when his grandmother told them stories, he was always interrupting with, ‘But--’ and then he would get behind her and put on her spectacles, and speak just as she did.

Who acts: girl, frost, bird, grandmother · What happens: come on, say, be, tell, interrupt, get · To what, where: stories, roses, spectacles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, frost, bird, grandmother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 on	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 came	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
8	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	compound
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 fit	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fit	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fit	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 fit	advmod
17	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 babies	case
19	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 interrupting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 interrupting	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grandmother	nmod:poss
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 interrupting	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 interrupting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 interrupting	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 interrupting	advmod
32	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	32 interrupting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 get	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 get	punct
36	But	but	CCONJ	_	43 get	cc
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 But	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 But	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 get	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 get	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 get	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 get	aux
43	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
44	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 get	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
47	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 get	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 spectacles	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 spectacles	nmod:poss
50	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 put	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 speak	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 speak	cc
53	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
54	just	just	ADV	_	57 did	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 did	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 did	nsubj
57	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 speak	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	girl					with the picture book	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	frost						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	bird					for babies; fit property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	frost's grandmother	stories	roses = rose				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
5	interrupt	past · progressive	frost					always property	tree rules
6	get	would	frost				then	behind girl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	put	past	frost not said here			girl's spectacles			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination
8	speak speech: other	present	frost not said here						tree rules
9	do	past	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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