The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 110
The young man went out, sorely troubled, to tell his old friend what had happened.
Who acts: young man · What happens: go out, tell, happen · To what, where: old friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 troubled | punct |
| 7 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 8 troubled | advmod |
| 8 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the young man | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | man's old friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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