The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 64
They entered with a great noise, and overwhelmed the shoemaker with reproaches for having deceived them about the donkey.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: enter, overwhelm, have, deceive · To what, where: shoemaker, robbers
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 noise | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 noise | amod |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overwhelmed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 overwhelmed | cc |
| 9 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shoemaker | det |
| 11 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overwhelmed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 reproaches | case |
| 13 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 overwhelmed | obl |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 overwhelmed | advcl |
| 16 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 having | obj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deceived | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 donkey | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 donkey | det |
| 20 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deceived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | robbers = robber | with a great noise | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overwhelm | past | robbers = robber not said here | the shoemaker | with reproaches | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shoemaker=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deceive | past | robbers = robber | about the donkey | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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