The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 56
One after another they all took the donkey, but no money was forthcoming for anybody.
Who acts: One, money · What happens: take, forthcom · To what, where: donkey
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 (One, money), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 took | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 another | case |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 took | advmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 donkey | det |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forthcoming | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 forthcoming | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forthcoming | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forthcoming | aux |
| 14 | forthcoming | forthcom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 anybody | case |
| 16 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 forthcoming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | One after another | the donkey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument donkey=Destination | ||||
| 2 | forthcom | past · progressive | no money | for anybody | tree rules |
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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