The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 46
When Hans had got this he said, ‘Many thanks, father; now I have got my inheritance.’
Who acts: Hans, smith, I, my · What happens: get, say, inherit · To what, where: this, inheritance · 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 (Hans, smith, I, my), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thanks | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thanks | punct |
| 10 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thanks | amod |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 father | punct |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Hans | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | I | my inheritance | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inheritance=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | inherit | my | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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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