The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 118
After some time had passed the man had a mind to visit his second eldest daughter.
Who acts: man · What happens: pass, have, visit · To what, where: mind, second eldest daughter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mind | det |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 visit | mark |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mind | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 daughter | amod |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the man | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | the man not said here | man's second eldest daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent |
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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