The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 76
The robbers stared with open mouths, and at last they said, ‘Master Joseph, you may keep the fifty gold pieces.
Who acts: robbers, Master Joseph · What happens: stare, say, keep · To what, where: last, fifty gold pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Master Joseph), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robbers | det |
| 2 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mouths | case |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouths | amod |
| 6 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stared | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 15 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Joseph | compound |
| 16 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Joseph | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | aux |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pieces | det |
| 22 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 pieces | nummod |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pieces | compound |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the robbers | with open mouths | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | robbers = robber | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | may | Master Joseph | the fifty gold pieces | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
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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