The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 58
But as yet there was no Hans to be seen, and the sun was already high in the heavens, so the squire himself went and called on him.
Who acts: sun, squire · What happens: see, be, go, call · To what, where: heavens · 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 (sun, squire), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 seen | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 Hans | det |
| 7 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 high | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 high | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 high | cop |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seen | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heavens | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heavens | det |
| 20 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 squire | det |
| 24 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 24 squire | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 called | cc |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 called | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | the squire squire | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | past | the squire squire not said here | on squire | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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