The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 52
Very early the captain awoke and searched the stable, but could find nothing, and guessed that Master Joseph had been making fun of them.
Who acts: captain, Master · What happens: awake, search, find, guess, make · To what, where: stable, nothing, fun
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 (captain, Master), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 searched | cc |
| 7 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 searched | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 awoke | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 guessed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 guessed | cc |
| 17 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 making | mark |
| 19 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 making | nsubj |
| 20 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Master | flat |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 making | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 making | aux |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 guessed | advcl |
| 24 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fun | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the captain | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | past | the captain not said here | the stable | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stable=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | could | the captain not said here | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | the captain not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect · progressive | Master | fun of treasures | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
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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