The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 48
All this bustle, however, ended in nothing but confusion, and, what was worse, the King soon fell back into the same condition as he was in before.
Who acts: bustle, King, bird · What happens: end, be, fall back · To what, where: nothing, same condition
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bustle, King, bird), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bustle | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bustle | det |
| 3 | bustle | bustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bustle | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 ended | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nothing | case |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 ended | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 confusion | cc |
| 11 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worse | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worse | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worse | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 worse | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worse | cop |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ended | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | advmod |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worse | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 condition | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 condition | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 condition | amod |
| 27 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 before | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 before | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 before | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 before | case |
| 32 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | all bustle | nothing | however property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall back | past | the King | into the same condition result; soon property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into condition=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | past | bird | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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