The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 22
Both the squire and his wife thought this a splendid idea, and went about rejoicing at the thought that now they would get rid of Hans.
Who acts: squire, men · What happens: think, go, rejoice, get · To what, where: this, thought
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 (squire, men), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 squire | det |
| 3 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squire | conj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 idea | det |
| 10 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 idea | amod |
| 11 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 rejoicing | mark |
| 16 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 thought | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thought | det |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rejoicing | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 get | obj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 get | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | acl:relcl |
| 25 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 get | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Hans | case |
| 27 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 rid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the squire and squire's wife | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the squire and squire's wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | gerund | the squire and squire's wife not said here | the thought | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | get | would | men = man | the thought | now | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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