The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 99
But the hermit knew what he was about, and why he gathered these strange people into the ship.
Who acts: hermit · What happens: know, gather · To what, where: strange people
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 (hermit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hermit | det |
| 3 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 was | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gathered | cc |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gathered | nsubj |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 people | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gathered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the hermit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | Hermit | this strange people | into the ship | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Patient into ship=Co-Patient |
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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