The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 44
The squire went limping in to his wife, and the steward was sent for.
Who acts: squire · What happens: go, limp in, send · To what, where: wife, steward
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), 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 | 2 squire | det |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | limping | limp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 limping | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steward | det |
| 12 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the squire | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | limp in | gerund | the squire not said here | squire's wife | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wife=Destination | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the steward | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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