The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 109
‘There must be people living yonder,’ she thought, ‘who will take me in for the night,’ and she began walking towards it.
Who acts: people, tree · What happens: be, live, think, take in, begin, walk · To what, where: people, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, tree), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 people | cop |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 people | acl |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 living | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 take | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 began | nsubj |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 27 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 began | xcomp |
| 28 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 walking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | gerund | people not said here | yonder property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in | future | me | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | walk | gerund | tree not said here | towards distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
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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