The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 33
The grocer could afford this, so the Goblin stayed in the grocer’s shop; and this teaches us a good deal.
Who acts: grocer, Goblin, this · What happens: afford, stay, teach · To what, where: this, shop, good deal, us
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 (grocer, Goblin, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grocer | det |
| 2 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afford | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 afford | aux |
| 4 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 afford | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stayed | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 stayed | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Goblin | det |
| 9 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afford | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grocer | det |
| 13 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shop | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 grocer | case |
| 15 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 teaches | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 teaches | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 teaches | nsubj |
| 19 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afford | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 teaches | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deal | amod |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teaches | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afford | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afford | could | the grocer | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | the Goblin | the grocer's shop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shop=Location | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | this | a good deal | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient deal=Topic |
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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