The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 48
He reached it one morning, just at daybreak, found out the right place, and asked if the merchant was at home.
Who acts: man, daybreak, merchant · What happens: reach, find out, ask, be · To what, where: merchant, daybreak, right place, home
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, daybreak, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | obj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nummod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daybreak | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 daybreak | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 daybreak | case |
| 9 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 daybreak | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 found | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 home | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 merchant | det |
| 21 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 home | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 home | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | man | merchant | daybreak | morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at daybreak=Asset | ||
| 2 | find out | participle | daybreak not said here | the right place | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the merchant | home | tree rules |
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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