The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 44
He carried his sack to the nearest village, and there bought a wheelbarrow, a strong barrel, and a quantity of nails.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: carry, buy · To what, where: sack, nearest village, wheelbarrow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sack | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 village | amod |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bought | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 bought | expl |
| 12 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wheelbarrow | det |
| 14 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 barrel | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 barrel | det |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 barrel | amod |
| 18 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheelbarrow | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 quantity | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 quantity | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 quantity | det |
| 22 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nails | case |
| 24 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 quantity | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Peter | Peter's sack | the nearest village | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 2 | buy | past | Peter not said here | a wheelbarrow and a strong barrel | there | a quantity of nails obl | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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