The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 43
Did you come on a plough, or was it a harrow?’
Who acts: you, plough · What happens: come, be · To what, where: plough, harrow
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 (you, plough), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plough | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plough | det |
| 6 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harrow | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 harrow | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 harrow | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 harrow | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 harrow | det |
| 12 | harrow | harrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | you | a plough | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plough=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | plough | a harrow | tree rules |
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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