The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 123

About an hour after some one arrived on business, and the girl untied the dog and said, ‘Go to the inn and call my father!’

Who acts: hour, girl · What happens: arrive, untie, say, go, call · To what, where: business, dog, inn, father · 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 (hour, girl), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 hour	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 business	case
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 untied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 untied	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 untied	nsubj
14	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arrived	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 untied	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arrived	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
21	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 inn	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 inn	det
24	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 call	cc
26	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Go	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 call	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	arrive	past	a hour after some one			business	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	untie	past	the girl	the dog			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	a hour after some one not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive				the inn	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
5	call	infinitive			my father		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=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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