The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 14

Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy books!

Who acts: Fancy, president · What happens: hear, say, not think, publish, dismay · To what, where: dismay, fairy books, Jacobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fancy, president), 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	Fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dismay	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dismay	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dismay	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dismay	det
6	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fancy	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Jacobs	case
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Jacobs	nmod:desc
9	Jacobs	Jacobs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dismay	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Editor	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Editor	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Editor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Editor	det
14	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Jacobs	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dismay	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 president	nmod:poss
20	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 think	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 think	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 think	advmod
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 think	obj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 nice	advmod
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 think	ccomp
30	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 publish	mark
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 publish	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 publish	mark
33	publish	publish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 nice	advcl
34	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 books	compound
35	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 publish	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 all	punct
37	above	above	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 publish	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 red	punct
40	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 all	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 green	punct
42	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 red	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 books	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 books	cc
45	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 books	amod
46	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 books	compound
47	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fancy	conj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Fancy		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	Fancy's president		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other	past · do-support	president	dismay	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	publish	to-infinitive	Fancy	fairy books	tree rules
5	dismay			Jacobs Mr.	nom dismay «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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