The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 99
Of course the same thing happened over again, till all the wives had been killed secretly, and when there were no more left they whispered to each other the dreadful tale, and swore to be avenged on the shoemaker.
Who acts: same thing, companions · What happens: happen, kill, not be, whisper, swear, avenge · To what, where: wives, dreadful tale, each, shoemaker
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 (same thing, companions), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 happened | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 wives | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wives | det |
| 13 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 happened | conj |
| 17 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 16 killed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 were | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | cop |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 left | advmod |
| 25 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 whispered | nsubj |
| 27 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 each | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 27 whispered | obl |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 each | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tale | det |
| 32 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tale | amod |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 whispered | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 swore | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 swore | cc |
| 36 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whispered | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 avenged | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 avenged | aux:pass |
| 39 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 swore | xcomp |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 shoemaker | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 shoemaker | det |
| 42 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 avenged | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | all wives | secretly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | left property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | past | companions = companion | the dreadful tale | each | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to each=Recipient | |||
| 5 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | avenge | to-infinitive · passive | the shoemaker | 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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