The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 35
But she repented bitterly of her words when Pinkel told her that he too was old enough to go out into the world, and that when he had made a fortune he would send for his mother to keep house for him.
Who acts: widow, Pinkel · What happens: repent, tell, be, go out, make, send · To what, where: words, widow, world, fortune, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, Pinkel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 repented | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repented | nsubj |
| 3 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 words | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 repented | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 told | advmod |
| 9 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repented | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 old | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 told | ccomp |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 old | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 send | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 send | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 made | mark |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 made | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 send | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fortune | det |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 send | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 send | aux |
| 35 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 repented | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 mother | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 send | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 keep | mark |
| 40 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 send | advcl |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 keep | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 keep | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repent | past | widow | widow's words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Pinkel | widow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Pinkel | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out | to-infinitive | Pinkel not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | Pinkel | a fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Product | ||||
| 6 | send | would | Pinkel | for Pinkel's mother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | keep | to-infinitive | Pinkel not said here | house | for Pinkel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 8 | word | widow | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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