The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 74
‘Perhaps I was hasty, but it is easily set right,’ replied the shoemaker, taking down his guitar and beginning to play.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, set, reply, take down, begin, play · To what, where: blood, shoemaker, guitar
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 hasty | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 hasty | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hasty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hasty | cop |
| 5 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hasty | conj |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hasty | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shoemaker | det |
| 17 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | advcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 taking | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 guitar | nmod:poss |
| 22 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beginning | cc |
| 24 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 taking | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 play | mark |
| 26 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 beginning | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hasty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | hasty, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present · passive | blood | easily, right property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take down | gerund | One's guitar | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begin | gerund | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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