The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 40
When they came near to the castle where the bird Grip sat in his cage he again asked the fox for three grains of gold.
Who acts: grains, bird Grip, prince · What happens: come, sit, ask · To what, where: castle, cage, fox
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grains, bird Grip, prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 sat | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Grip | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Grip | compound |
| 11 | Grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 castle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cage | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 asked | advmod |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 grains | case |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 grains | nummod |
| 23 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grains | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | grains = grain | the castle | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the bird Grip | prince's cage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | prince | the fox | again | for three grains of gold | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
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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