The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 64
And she told him all about her two cats, and how brave Gon had been, and how he had delivered her from her enemy the serpent.
Who acts: Princess, brave Gon, Gon · What happens: tell, be, deliver · To what, where: two cats, Princess, enemy · 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 (Princess, brave Gon, Gon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 her | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cats | nummod |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 been | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 been | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 brave | advmod |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Gon | amod |
| 14 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 been | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 16 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 delivered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 delivered | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 delivered | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 delivered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 delivered | aux |
| 22 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 delivered | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 enemy | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 26 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 delivered | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 serpent | det |
| 28 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enemy | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | two cats | about Paw | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | brave Gon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deliver | past · perfect | Gon | Princess | Princess's enemy the serpent | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from enemy=Initial_Location |
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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