The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 25
After he had got all the beef out of the way he went inside, put on his black clothes, and made his way to the peasant’s house.
Who acts: man, you · What happens: get, go, put, make · To what, where: beef, way, black clothes
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, you), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 put | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 beef | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beef | det |
| 7 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 clothes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clothes | amod |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 peasant | det |
| 28 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 peasant | case |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | man | all beef | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beef=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | man | the way not said here | inside property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | imperative | you not said here | man's black clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past | you not said here | man's way | to the peasant's house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=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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