The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 48
Meanwhile the robbers had arrived at the cave where they lived, and the captain, calling them all round him, announced that it as his right to have the donkey for the first night.
Who acts: robbers, captain · What happens: arrive, live, call, round, announce, have · To what, where: robbers, cave, captain, donkey · 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 (robbers, captain), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cave | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 announced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 announced | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 announced | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 calling | punct |
| 17 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 captain | acl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 round | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 round | advmod |
| 20 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 calling | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 round | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 announced | punct |
| 23 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 24 | that | that | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 announced | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 right | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 right | nmod:poss |
| 28 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 announced | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 right | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 donkey | det |
| 32 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 night | det |
| 35 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 night | amod |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 donkey | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | the robbers | the cave | meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past | robbers = robber | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | gerund | the captain not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | round | present | robbers = robber | captain | all property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | announce speech: other | past | the captain | that cave; as donkey's right | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | the captain not said here | the donkey | for the first night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Patient |
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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