The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 28
In those days everyone took what they found and got leave to keep it, so that the smith grew more prosperous day by day.
Who acts: everyone, people, smith · What happens: take, find, get, leave, keep, grow · To what, where: shore
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 (everyone, people, smith), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 found | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | conj |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 got | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 grew | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smith | det |
| 19 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 prosperous | advmod |
| 22 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | everyone | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | past | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | people not said here | shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | the smith | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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