The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 119

‘Duks,’ answered the beasts; and that must have meant, ‘We are quite willing,’ for the old man went on, ‘Here is abundance; go into the back kitchen and cook us a supper.’

Who acts: Duks, We, old man · What happens: answer, mean, be, go on, go, cook · To what, where: beasts, that, willing abundance, back kitchen, supper, us · 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 (Duks, We, old 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Duks	punct
2	Duks	Duks	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Duks	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Duks	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beasts	det
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 meant	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 meant	nsubj:pass
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 meant	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	aux
13	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
16	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 willing	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 willing	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 willing	advmod
19	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 abundance	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 went	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 willing	advcl
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Here	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Here	punct
30	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 went	conj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 abundance	cop
32	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meant	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	ccomp
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 kitchen	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 kitchen	det
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kitchen	compound
38	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cook	cc
40	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 go	conj
41	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 cook	obj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 supper	det
43	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cook	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Duks	the beasts				tree rules
2	mean	must · perfect · passive		that				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is	present	We				willing property	tree rules
4	go on	past	the old man					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		willing abundance				tree rules
6	go	infinitive				the back kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
7	cook	infinitive		a supper	us			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary supper=Product

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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