The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 62
So he rose and dressed himself, and went into the kitchen, where he got his pot of porridge; he swallowed all of this, and then asked what work he was to have.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: rise, dress, go, get, swallow, ask · To what, where: Hans, kitchen, pot, all, work
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dressed | cc |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 dressed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 porridge | case |
| 20 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pot | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 swallowed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swallowed | nsubj |
| 23 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 swallowed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 all | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asked | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 asked | advmod |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 31 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 32 work | det |
| 32 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asked | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 work | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Hans | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dress | past | Hans not said here | Hans | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Hans not said here | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Hans | Hans's pot of porridge | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | swallow | past | Hans | all | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Hans not said here | what work | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient | |||
| 7 | have | past | Hans | what work not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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