The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 40
At length the love of the couple grew to such a pitch that they determined to please themselves, and to seek their fortunes together.
Who acts: love, matters · What happens: grow, determine, please, seek, love · To what, where: length, matters, fortunes, couple
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, matters), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 love | det |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 couple | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pitch | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 pitch | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pitch | det |
| 12 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 determined | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 15 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 please | mark |
| 17 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 please | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seek | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seek | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seek | mark |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grew | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seek | obj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 seek | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the love of the couple | length | to such pitch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | determine | past | matters = matter | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | matters = matter not said here | matters = matter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the love of the couple not said here | matters's fortunes | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | the couple | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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