The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 97
He took plenty of time to his breakfast, and then went out to get his horse and cart ready.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, go out, get · To what, where: plenty, breakfast, horse
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plenty | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 breakfast | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cart | cc |
| 19 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horse | conj |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hans | plenty of time | Hans's breakfast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme to breakfast=Destination | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Hans not said here | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | Hans's horse and cart | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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