The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 61
Paw in paw they appeared before the princess, and told her the story of their life and its sorrows.
Who acts: Paw, mile · What happens: appear, tell, sorrow · To what, where: story, Paw · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Paw, mile), 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 | Paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 paw | case |
| 3 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paw | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sorrows | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 story | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Paw in paw | before the princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Paw in paw not said here | the story of Heart's life and mile's sorrows | Paw | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | sorrow | mile | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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