The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 20

‘Yes, indeed,’ said the cook, weighing the duck in his hand, ‘she certainly has spared no pains to stuff herself well, and must have been waiting for the spit for some time.’

Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, weigh, spare, stuff, wait · To what, where: cook, duck, hand, pains, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cook	det
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weighing	punct
11	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 said	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 duck	det
13	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weighing	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weighing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spared	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 spared	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spared	nsubj
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	22 spared	advmod
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 spared	aux
22	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 weighing	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 pains	det
24	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spared	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stuff	mark
26	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spared	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 stuff	obj
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 stuff	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 waiting	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 waiting	cc
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 waiting	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 waiting	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 waiting	aux
34	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 spit	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spit	det
37	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waiting	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 time	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 time	det
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waiting	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cook			indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cook=Topic
2	weigh	gerund		the duck	haste's hand			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme duck=Value
3	spare	present · perfect	Queen	no pains			certainly property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
4	stuff	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	Queen			well property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
5	wait	must · perfect · progressive				time	for the spit	vn exist-47.1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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