The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 60
The loaves were eaten, and the sausage also, and then they came to Lapland.
Who acts: loaves · What happens: eat, come · To what, where: loaves, Lapland
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 (loaves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loaves | det |
| 2 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sausage | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sausage | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sausage | det |
| 8 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | conj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 sausage | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Lapland | case |
| 16 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | the loaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | loaves = loaf | Lapland | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lapland=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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