The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 138
It was the little robber girl who was tired of being at home and wanted to go out into the world.
Who acts: bud, little robber girl · What happens: be, want, go out · To what, where: little robber girl, world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bud, little robber girl), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 5 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | compound |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tired | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tired | cop |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 home | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tired | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | cc |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bud | the little robber girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the little robber girl | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of home | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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