The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 38
‘That is a fair bargain,’ and as he spoke Peronnik jumped down and fastened his colt to a tree; then, stopping, he fixed one end of the net to the trunk of the apple tree, and called to the korigan to hold the other while he took out the pegs.
Who acts: That, sorry, Peronnik · What happens: be, speak, jump down, fasten, stop, fix · To what, where: fair bargain, colt, one end, korigan, other, pegs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, sorry, Peronnik), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bargain | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bargain | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bargain | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bargain | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bargain | amod |
| 6 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bargain | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bargain | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bargain | conj |
| 13 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | nsubj |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | ccomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 jumped | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fastened | cc |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumped | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 colt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastened | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastened | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stopping | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stopping | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stopping | punct |
| 26 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 spoke | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fixed | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fixed | nsubj |
| 29 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stopping | parataxis |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 end | nummod |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fixed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 net | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 net | det |
| 34 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 end | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 trunk | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 trunk | det |
| 37 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fixed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 tree | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 40 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tree | compound |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 trunk | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 called | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 called | cc |
| 44 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 fixed | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 korigan | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 korigan | det |
| 47 | korigan | korigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 called | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 hold | mark |
| 49 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 called | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 other | det |
| 51 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hold | obj |
| 52 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 54 took | mark |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 took | nsubj |
| 54 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 hold | advcl |
| 55 | out | out | ADP | _ | 54 took | compound:prt |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 pegs | det |
| 57 | pegs | peg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 took | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bargain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a fair bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | sorry | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | jump down | past | Peronnik | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | Peronnik not said here | Peronnik's colt | to a tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent colt=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | stop | gerund | sorry not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fix | past | sorry | one end of the net | to the trunk of the apple tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Patient to trunk=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | call | participle | sorry not said here | the korigan | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to korigan=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | hold | to-infinitive | sorry not said here | the other | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 9 | take out | past | sorry | the pegs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peg=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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