The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 57
The merchant thought that it was a lunatic who had made his way in to him, and thought it best to take things quietly.
Who acts: merchant, lunatic · What happens: think, be, make, take · To what, where: lunatic, way, man, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchant, lunatic), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lunatic | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lunatic | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lunatic | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lunatic | det |
| 8 | lunatic | lunatic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lunatic | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 best | expl |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the merchant | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | merchant | a lunatic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | a lunatic | man's way | man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | things | quietly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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