The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 129

It was so learned, long, and so full of the hardest Chinese words that everyone said they had read it and understood it; for once they had been very stupid about a book, and had been trampled under foot in consequence.

Who acts: everyone, words · What happens: learn, say, read, understand, be, trample · To what, where: work, hardest Chinese words, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, words), 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	4 learned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 learned	advmod
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 learned	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 full	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 full	advmod
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 learned	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 words	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
13	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 words	amod
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	obj
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 words	acl:relcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 read	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 read	aux
21	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 read	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 understood	cc
24	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 read	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 understood	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stupid	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 stupid	mark
28	once	once	SCONJ	_	33 stupid	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stupid	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stupid	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 stupid	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 stupid	advmod
33	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 learned	conj
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 book	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 book	det
36	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stupid	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 trampled	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 trampled	cc
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 trampled	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 trampled	aux:pass
41	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 learned	conj
42	under	under	ADP	_	43 foot	case
43	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 trampled	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 consequence	case
45	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 trampled	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past · passive		work			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	everyone	the hardest Chinese words			tree rules
3	read	past · perfect	words = word	work			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	understand	past	words = word not said here	work			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is	past · perfect	words = word			about a book; stupid property	tree rules
6	trample	past · perfect · passive			foot	in consequence	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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