The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 122
It was dark by that time, and his wife bade him go and buy some candles.
Who acts: thief, wife · What happens: be, bade, go, buy · To what, where: man, candles
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 (thief, wife), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dark | cop |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dark | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bade | nsubj |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dark | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bade | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buy | cc |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 candles | det |
| 17 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buy | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thief | time | dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bade | past | man's wife | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | man's wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | man's wife not said here | some candles | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=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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