The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 126
So back he went to Pivi with his two beautiful wives, and Pivi was very sorry, but what could he do?
Who acts: Kabo, Pivi · What happens: go, be, do · To what, where: Pivi
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo, Pivi), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 back | advmod |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Pivi | case |
| 6 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wives | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 wives | nummod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wives | amod |
| 11 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sorry | cc |
| 14 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kabo | Pivi | with Kabo's two beautiful wives | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pivi=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Pivi | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | Kabo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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