The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 147
The old man now got three sacks full of money, and set off home with them.
Who acts: old man · What happens: get, set off · To what, where: three sacks
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 (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sacks | nummod |
| 7 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sacks | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the old man | three sacks | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | set off | participle | the old man not said here | with trough; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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