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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 29

Then he went to the market and for two of them he bought a good strong donkey, and, mounting on its back, he rode home to Catania.

Who acts: donkey · What happens: go, buy, mount, ride · To what, where: market, good strong donkey, back, Catania

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 (donkey), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblcccaseoblcasenmodnsubjconjdetamodamodobjpunctccpunctadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblpunctrootThenADVhePRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETmarketNOUNandCCONJforADPtwoNUMofADPthemPRONhePRONboughtVERBaDETgoodADJstrongADJdonkeyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTmountingVERBonADPitsPRONbackNOUN,PUNCThePRONrodeVERBhomeADVtoADPCataniaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 wentadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_6 marketcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 marketdet
6marketmarketNOUNNumber=Sing3 wentobl
7andandCCONJ_13 boughtcc
8forforADP_9 twocase
9twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 boughtobl
10ofofADP_11 themcase
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 twonmod
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 boughtnsubj
13boughtbuyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 donkeydet
15goodgoodADJDegree=Pos17 donkeyamod
16strongstrongADJDegree=Pos17 donkeyamod
17donkeydonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing13 boughtobj
18,,PUNCT_21 mountingpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 mountingcc
20,,PUNCT_21 mountingpunct
21mountingmountVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 boughtadvcl
22ononADP_24 backcase
23itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 backnmod:poss
24backbackNOUNNumber=Sing21 mountingobl
25,,PUNCT_27 rodepunct
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 rodensubj
27roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
28homehomeADV_27 rodeadvmod
29totoADP_30 Cataniacase
30CataniaCataniaPROPNNumber=Sing27 rodeobl
31..PUNCT_3 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastdonkeythe marketthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location
2buypastdonkeya good strong donkeyfor two of streetsvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme for two=Beneficiary
3mountgerunddonkey not said heremarket's backvn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination
4ridepastdonkeyCataniahome propertyvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to catania=Trajectory

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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