The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 46
Next day the man got a bag of money on his back and a sandwich in his pocket, and his pipe in his mouth, and set out for the town where the new merchant lived.
Who acts: man, new merchant · What happens: get, set out, live · To what, where: bag, back
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, new merchant), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bag | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sandwich | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sandwich | det |
| 15 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sandwich | nmod | ||
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pipe | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pipe | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pipe | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 town | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 town | det |
| 32 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 lived | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 merchant | det |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 merchant | amod |
| 36 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lived | nsubj |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 town | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the man | a bag of money | man's back and a sandwich in man's pocket | day | man's pipe in man's mouth obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on back=Source | |
| 2 | set out | past | the man not said here | for the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the new merchant | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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