The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 68
The little fellow thought it over, for he was a sensible Goblin.
Who acts: little fellow, fellow · What happens: think, be · To what, where: lullaby · 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 (little fellow, fellow), 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 | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Goblin | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Goblin | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Goblin | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Goblin | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Goblin | det |
| 12 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Goblin | amod |
| 13 | Goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the little fellow | lullaby | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | fellow | for a sensible Goblin | tree rules |
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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