The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 38
Perhaps he had only gone astray, and he would advertise him at church next Sunday, and find out where anyone had seen him.
Who acts: Peter, anyone · What happens: go, advertise, find out, see · To what, where: pupil, church, Peter
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 (Peter, anyone), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 advertise | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 advertise | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 advertise | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 advertise | aux |
| 11 | advertise | advertise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 advertise | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 advertise | obl |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sunday | amod |
| 16 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 advertise | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 advertise | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 find | compound:prt |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | advmod |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 find | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Peter | astray, perhaps property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | advertise | would | Peter | pupil | church | sunday | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic | ||
| 3 | find out | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | anyone | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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