The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 37
As he spoke the donkey gave himself a shake, and down fell the five florins.
Who acts: donkey · What happens: speak, give, fall · To what, where: shake, donkey, five florins · 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shake | det |
| 9 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 florins | det |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 florins | nummod |
| 16 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | donkey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the donkey | a shake | donkey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient shake=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | donkey not said here | the five florins | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient florin=Result |
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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