The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 90
So they took him into the ship, and the young man whispered, ‘Good father, before we were five, and now we are six.’
Who acts: trees, young man, we · What happens: take, whisper, be · To what, where: man, ship, five, six
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 (trees, young man, we), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whispered | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 father | amod |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | vocative |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 five | punct |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 five | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 five | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 five | cop |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 whispered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 six | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 six | cc |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 six | advmod |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 six | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 six | cop |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | trees = tree | man | the ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the young man | Good father vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | we | five | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | we | six | now | 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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