The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 87
Off went Hans to the kitchen, and got as much as he could eat; then he went and took a midday nap which lasted till supper-time.
Who acts: squire, midday nap · What happens: go, get, eat, take, last · To what, where: Hans, much, midday nap
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 (squire, midday nap), 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 much | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nap | det |
| 23 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nap | compound |
| 24 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lasted | nsubj |
| 26 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 nap | acl:relcl |
| 27 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 supper | punct |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lasted | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hans | to the kitchen; off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location han=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | could | squire | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | squire | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | squire not said here | a midday nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme | ||||
| 6 | last | past | a midday nap | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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