The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 93
Yes, the lackeys and chambermaids announced that they were pleased; which means a great deal, for they are the most difficult people of all to satisfy.
Who acts: lackeys · What happens: announce, be, mean, satisfy · To what, where: great deal · 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 (lackeys), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 announced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lackeys | det |
| 4 | lackeys | lackey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 announced | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chambermaids | cc |
| 6 | chambermaids | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lackeys | conj |
| 7 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | cop |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 announced | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 announced | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 people | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 people | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 people | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 difficult | advmod |
| 24 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 means | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 people | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 satisfy | mark |
| 29 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 people | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the lackeys and chambermaids | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | lackeys = lackey | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a great deal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | lackeys = lackey | for the difficult people; of all | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | satisfy | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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