The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 23

It sang so beautifully that one could scarcely utter a cross word against it.

Who acts: rose, one · What happens: sing, utter · To what, where: cross word

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 beautifully	advmod
4	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 utter	mark
6	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 utter	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 utter	aux
8	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	9 utter	advmod
9	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sang	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	compound
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 utter	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 word	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	rose					beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	utter speech: other	could	one	a cross word				against rose; scarcely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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