The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 47
With this he set off into the country, and the smith was very pleased to be rid of that son, before he ate him out of house and home.
Who acts: smith · What happens: set off, be, eat · To what, where: country, Son, house
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 set | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleased | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smith | det |
| 12 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rid | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rid | cop |
| 18 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pleased | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rid | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ate | punct |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 ate | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ate | nsubj |
| 25 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ate | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ate | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 home | cc |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | smith | the country | with this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the smith | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the smith not said here | of that son; rid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | smith | Son | house and home | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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