The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 3
Then he snatched up the covering and carried it to the king.
Who acts: man · What happens: snatch up, carry · To what, where: covering, king
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 snatched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 snatched | nsubj |
| 3 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 snatched | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 covering | det |
| 6 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snatched | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 snatched | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | past | man | the covering | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | man not said here | covering | the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=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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