The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 25
He had got into a fog, he said, and could not find land again.
Who acts: Basmus · What happens: get, say, not find · To what, where: fog, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basmus), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fog | det |
| 6 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 find | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Basmus | a fog | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into fog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Basmus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not find | could | land | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
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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