The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 101
He then said farewell to his brothers, and rode on to find another inn in which to pass the night.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, ride on, find, pass · To what, where: brothers, inn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brothers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rode | xcomp |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pass | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pass | mark |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 inn | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pass | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | king's brothers | then | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ride on | past | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | king not said here | another inn | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inn=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | king not said here | another inn not said here | another inn | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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