The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 55
It was in the evening that Hans arrived there, so he did nothing more that day than eat his supper--a big pot of buck-wheat porridge, which he cleaned to the bottom and was then so far satisfied that he said he could sleep on that, so he went off to bed.
Who acts: twelve, evening, Hans, day · What happens: be, arrive, do, eat, clean, say · To what, where: nothing, supper, buck wheat porridge, that · 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 (twelve, evening, Hans, day), 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 | 5 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | acl:relcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrived | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 did | obj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 did | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 day | acl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 supper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 pot | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pot | amod |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supper | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 porridge | case |
| 27 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 porridge | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 buck | punct |
| 29 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 porridge | compound |
| 30 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pot | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cleaned | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 cleaned | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cleaned | nsubj |
| 34 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 porridge | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 bottom | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bottom | det |
| 37 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cleaned | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 satisfied | cc |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 satisfied | cop |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 satisfied | advmod |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 far | advmod |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 satisfied | advmod |
| 43 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 cleaned | conj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 said | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 said | nsubj |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 satisfied | advcl |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 sleep | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 sleep | aux |
| 49 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 said | ccomp |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 that | case |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 sleep | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 went | punct |
| 53 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 went | advmod |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 went | nsubj |
| 55 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrived | conj |
| 56 | off | off | ADP | _ | 55 went | compound:prt |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 bed | case |
| 58 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 went | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | twelve | in the evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the evening | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Hans | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | that day not said here | Hans's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 5 | clean | past | Hans | buck wheat porridge | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | Hans not said here | then | far, satisfy property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | sleep | could | Hans | that | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | go off | past | Hans | to bed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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