The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 55

When the tree came to itself again it was packed in a yard with other trees, and a man was saying, ‘This is a splendid one, we shall only want this.’

Who acts: tree, man, This, we · What happens: come, pack, say, be, want · To what, where: parting, splendid one, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, man, This, we), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 packed	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 came	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 packed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 packed	aux:pass
10	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 yard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 yard	det
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 packed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trees	amod
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 yard	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saying	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saying	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saying	aux
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 packed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
25	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 one	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 one	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saying	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 want	punct
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 want	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 want	aux
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 want	advmod
34	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saying	conj
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 want	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 packed	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 packed	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the tree		parting	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to itself=Initial_Location
2	pack	past · passive		parting			in a yard with other trees	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in yard=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past · progressive	a man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	This	a splendid one				tree rules
5	want	shall	we	this				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme

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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