The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 45
He was told that he must devise some plan for getting rid of this terrible person.
Who acts: steward, plan · What happens: tell, devise, get · To what, where: steward, plan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (steward, plan), 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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 devise | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 devise | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 devise | aux |
| 7 | devise | devise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 plan | det |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devise | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 plan | acl |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 person | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 person | det |
| 15 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | steward | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | devise | must | steward | some plan | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | some plan not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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