The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 11
So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying, ‘Who wants some shoes?’
Who acts: Sicilianische · What happens: go, walk, cry, want · To what, where: Mascalucia, streets, shoes
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 (Sicilianische), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Mascalucia | case |
| 6 | Mascalucia | Mascalucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 streets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walked | obl |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 16 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 shoes | det |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wants | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sicilianische | Mascalucia | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mascalucia=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | walk | past | Sicilianische not said here | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Sicilianische not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | want | present | some shoes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=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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