The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 137
In a little the troll came home, and his wife asked him to go and buy some fish.
Who acts: wife · What happens: come, ask, go, buy · To what, where: little troll, mound, fish
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 troll | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 troll | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 troll | det |
| 5 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buy | cc |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the little troll | home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troll=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mound's wife | mound | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | mound's wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | mound's wife not said here | some fish | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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