The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 47
He just stopped on the way to pick up a good dinner, and the next day spent most of his gains in buying a small vineyard.
Who acts: donkey, next day · What happens: stop, pick up, spend, buy · To what, where: way, good dinner, most, small vineyard
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, next day), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pick | mark |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stopped | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dinner | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dinner | amod |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pick | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spent | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spent | nsubj |
| 18 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 19 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 spent | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gains | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gains | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gains | gain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 most | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 buying | mark |
| 24 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 spent | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 vineyard | det |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vineyard | amod |
| 27 | vineyard | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 buying | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | donkey | the way | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | donkey not said here | a good dinner | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | the next day | most of donkey's gains | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | the next day not said here | a small vineyard | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=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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