The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 103
The other half he took home to his father the smith in Furreby.
Who acts: other half · What happens: take · To what, where: smith, father, Furreby
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other half), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 half | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 half | amod |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smith | det |
| 11 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Furreby | case |
| 13 | Furreby | Furreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 smith | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the other half | the smith | half's father | Furreby | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smith=Theme to father=Destination |
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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