The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 54
It was arranged that he should have a pot to himself, and he could then use the ladle to take his food with.
Who acts: man · What happens: arrange, have, use, take · To what, where: twelve, pot, man, ladle, food
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 (man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | aux:pass |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 use | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 use | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 use | aux |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 use | advmod |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ladle | det |
| 19 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 use | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 use | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 food | nmod:poss |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | twelve | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | have | should | man | a pot | man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | |||
| 3 | use | could | man | the ladle | then | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladle=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's food | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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