The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 109

‘He was so clever; he could do sums with fractions.

Who acts: Kay · What happens: be, do · To what, where: sums

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clever	parataxis
10	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 fractions	case
12	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kay					clever property	tree rules
2	do	could	Kay	sums				with fractions	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality

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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