The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 47
So spake the fairies, and went their way, leaving the most beautiful maiden in the world behind them.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, go, leave · To what, where: fairies, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairies | det |
| 4 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaving | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | obl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 world | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the fairies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | you not said here | fairies's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | you not said here | maiden property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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