The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 163
When he had got better again his wife one day wanted fish, and asked him to go and buy some.
Who acts: man, one day · What happens: get, want, ask, go, buy · To what, where: wife, fish, man, some
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, one day), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wanted | parataxis |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 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 | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wanted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wanted | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buy | cc |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 buy | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | man | man's wife | again | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | want | past | one day | fish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one day not said here | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | one day not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | buy | infinitive | one day not said here | some | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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