The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 14
The faithful servant departed on his errand without losing any time, and again he knocked at the door of the little house and begged for some water.
Who acts: faithful servant · What happens: depart, lose, knock, beg · To what, where: faithful servant, errand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faithful servant), 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 | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocked | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 servant | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 errand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 errand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 departed | advcl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 losing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knocked | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 knocked | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knocked | nsubj |
| 16 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 begged | cc |
| 25 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 knocked | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 begged | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | participle | the faithful servant not said here | servant's errand | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | knock | past | the faithful servant | again | at the door of the little house | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | participle | the faithful servant not said here | for some water | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for water=Topic |
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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