The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 35
By this time he had not a penny left, so he went back to his two brothers and told his tale.
Who acts: man · What happens: have, leave, go back, tell · To what, where: penny, tale · 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 (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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 penny | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 penny | det |
| 8 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 penny | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 brothers | nummod |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tale | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | a penny | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | a penny not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | man | to man's two brothers result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to brother=Result | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | man not said here | man's tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tell | man | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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