The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 104
A few minutes later the robbers arrived, and called loudly for the shoemaker.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: arrive, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 robbers | det |
| 6 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 arrived | conj |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 shoemaker | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoemaker | det |
| 14 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the robbers | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the robbers not said here | for the shoemaker; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for shoemaker=Recipient |
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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