The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 166
‘How much pleasure he did give me, dear little bird!’
Who acts: two · What happens: give · To what, where: much pleasure, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pleasure | amod |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleasure | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | two | much pleasure and dear little bird not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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