The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 70
‘Go this instant, as you are bid,’ shouted the shoemaker, stamping as if he was in a great passion; but, as she did not stir, he drew his knife, and stabbed her in the neck.
Who acts: you, One, Shoemaker · What happens: go, bid, shout, stamp, be, not stir · To what, where: instant, you, shoemaker, great passion, knife, neck
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 (you, One, Shoemaker), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shouted | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 bid | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bid | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bid | aux:pass |
| 9 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shouted | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bid | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 shouted | punct |
| 12 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoemaker | det |
| 14 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shouted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stamping | punct |
| 16 | stamping | stamp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 shouted | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 passion | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 passion | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passion | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 passion | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 passion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 passion | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 passion | amod |
| 24 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stamping | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 drew | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 drew | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 but | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 stir | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stir | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stir | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 stir | advmod |
| 32 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 drew | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stir | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 drew | nsubj |
| 35 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 knife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drew | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stabbed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 stabbed | cc |
| 40 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 drew | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stabbed | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 neck | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 neck | det |
| 44 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stabbed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | this instant | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location instant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid | present · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | you not said here | the shoemaker | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stamp | gerund | you not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | One | a great passion | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not stir | past · do-support | Shoemaker | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | draw | past | One | One's knife | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stab | past | One not said here | Shoemaker | the neck | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in neck=Location |
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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