The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 13
In another week the man came again to learn what progress Peter had made now.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, learn, make · To what, where: progress · 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 (man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 week | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 learn | mark |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | obl |
| 11 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 learn | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 made | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the man | again; week | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | progress | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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