The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 126
Then the old man said, ‘Go upstairs, and there you will find a bedroom; shake the bed, and put clean sheets on, and go to sleep.’
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: say, go, find, shake, put · To what, where: bedroom, bed, clean sheets, sleep · 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 (old man, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Go | punct |
| 8 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 8 Go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 find | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Go | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bedroom | det |
| 17 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shake | punct |
| 19 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shake | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 shake | conj |
| 25 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sheets | amod |
| 26 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shake | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 sleep | case |
| 32 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | future | you | a bedroom | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedroom=Topic | |||
| 4 | shake | infinitive | the bed | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | |||||
| 5 | put | participle | clean sheets | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheet=Goal | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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