English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 29
The behaviour of the cook was now a little better; but besides this Dick had another hardship to get over.
Who acts: behaviour, Dick · What happens: be, have, get over · To what, where: hardship
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (behaviour, Dick), 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 | 2 behaviour | det |
| 2 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cook | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 behaviour | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 better | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 better | obl |
| 10 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 was | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 13 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 15 Dick | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Dick | det |
| 15 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | parataxis |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hardship | det |
| 18 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hardship | acl |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the behaviour of the cook | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | this Dick | another hardship | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hardship=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get over | to-infinitive | this Dick not said here | another hardship not said here | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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