The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 144

In short, it was evident that he was in a bad way, and the Fairy was at her wits’ end.

Who acts: collection, Mirliflor, Fairy · What happens: be · To what, where: bad way, short end

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collection, Mirliflor, Fairy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 end	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 evident	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 evident	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	cop
6	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 short	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 way	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 way	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evident	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 end	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 end	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 end	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 end	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 end	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wits	nmod:poss
21	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 end	nmod:poss
22	’	's	PART	_	21 wits	case
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	collection			evident property	tree rules
2	is	past	Mirliflor	a bad way			tree rules
3	is	past	the Fairy		at way's wits's short end		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 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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