The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 69

The greater part of them are always quarrelling and complaining of each other’s faults, while nobody thinks of his own.’

Who acts: greater part, nobody · What happens: quarrell, complain, think · To what, where: faults

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greater part, nobody), 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	3 part	det
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarrelling	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 part	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 quarrelling	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 quarrelling	advmod
8	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 complaining	cc
10	complaining	complain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 quarrelling	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 faults	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 other	case
15	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 complaining	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thinks	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 thinks	mark
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 thinks	nsubj
19	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 quarrelling	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 own	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 own	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thinks	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 quarrelling	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 quarrelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quarrell	present · progressive	the greater part of doings		always property	tree rules
2	complain speech: other	gerund	the greater part of doings not said here	each other's faults		tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	nobody		of part's own	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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