The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 46
With these words they parted, the robbers driving the donkey to their cave in the forest and the shoemaker returning home, very pleased with the success of his trick.
Who acts: words, robbers, shoemaker, donkey · What happens: part, drive, return, trick · To what, where: words, donkey, forest
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 (words, robbers, shoemaker, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 parted | nsubj |
| 5 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 robbers | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robbers | det |
| 8 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 words | conj |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 robbers | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 donkey | det |
| 11 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cave | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shoemaker | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shoemaker | det |
| 20 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forest | conj |
| 21 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 shoemaker | acl |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 returning | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pleased | punct |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 pleased | advmod |
| 25 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 returning | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 success | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 success | det |
| 28 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pleased | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 trick | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 trick | nmod:poss |
| 31 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 success | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | words = word | this words and the robbers not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | the robbers not said here | the donkey | the forest and the shoemaker | to words's cave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme to cave=Destination in forest=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | return | gerund | the shoemaker not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trick | donkey | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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