The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 160
After he had recovered from this his wife asked him one day to go and buy candles, as they had none.
Who acts: man, wife, candles · What happens: recover, ask, go, buy, have · To what, where: this, man, candles, none · Speech: someone speaks here
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, wife, candles), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 recovered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | aux |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 recovered | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buy | cc |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buy | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | conj |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | man | this | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from this=Source | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man's wife | man | day | 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 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | candles | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | candles = candle | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
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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