The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8
And the first thing the young man did when his beard was grown was to take the road to the dragon’s house and on the way he met a beggar, whom he persuaded to change clothes with him, and in the beggar’s garments he went fearlessly forth to the dragon.
Who acts: first thing, beard, beggar · What happens: grow, be, meet, persuade, change, go · To what, where: young man, beggar, way, clothes, garments
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 (first thing, beard, beggar), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 grown | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux:pass |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 dragon | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 met | cc |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 beggar | det |
| 31 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 persuaded | punct |
| 33 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 persuaded | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 persuaded | nsubj |
| 35 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beggar | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 change | mark |
| 37 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 persuaded | xcomp |
| 38 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 37 change | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 change | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 went | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 went | cc |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 garments | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 beggar | det |
| 45 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 garments | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 beggar | case |
| 47 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 went | obl |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 went | nsubj |
| 49 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 50 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 51 forth | advmod |
| 51 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 49 went | advmod |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 dragon | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 dragon | det |
| 54 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 went | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · passive · do-support | the young man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the first thing | to the dragon's house; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | beard | a beggar | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | persuade | past | beard | a beggar | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | a beggar not said here | clothes | with beard | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | go | past | beard | the beggar's garments | to the dragon; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dragon=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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