The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 49

The most mysterious thing was the woman saying ‘and only one is left;’ but the nurse guessed that this must mean that only one day was left, since she had come for two days already.

Who acts: mysterious thing, nurse, this, woman · What happens: be, leave, guess, mean, come · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mysterious thing, nurse, this, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 mysterious	advmod
3	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	nsubj:outer
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	nsubj
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
9	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 left	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saying	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 guessed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nurse	det
19	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 guessed	nsubj
20	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 mean	mark
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 mean	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 mean	aux
24	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 guessed	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 left	mark
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 one	advmod
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 day	nummod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obl:unmarked
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux:pass
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 mean	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
32	since	since	SCONJ	_	35 come	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 left	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 days	nummod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 come	obl
39	already	already	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	the mysterious thing			say property	tree rules
2	leave	present · passive		one			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	guess	past	the nurse				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	must	this				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	leave	past · passive			day		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
6	come	past · perfect	woman		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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