The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 41
He put the newspaper in his pocket, and went round to the sorrowing couple who had lost their heir.
Who acts: Peter, sorrowing couple · What happens: put, go round, sorrow, lose · To what, where: newspaper, pocket, sorrowing couple, heir
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, sorrowing couple), 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 | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 newspaper | det |
| 4 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl | ||
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 couple | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 couple | det |
| 14 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 couple | amod |
| 15 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 couple | acl:relcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heir | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Peter | the newspaper | Peter's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | go round | past | Peter not said here | the sorrowing couple | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to couple=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sorrow | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | the sorrowing couple | columns's heir | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Eventuality |
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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