The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 88
The grocer’s wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings out of her ears and put them in her pocket in order to save something.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, take, put, save · To what, where: gold earrings, ears, earrings, pocket, something
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 (wife), 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 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 grocer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terrified | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrified | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 terrified | advmod |
| 7 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrified | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 earrings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earrings | compound |
| 13 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 ears | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ears | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl | ||
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 save | mark |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 in | fixed |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 save | mark |
| 27 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | advcl |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 save | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the grocer's wife | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | wife | wife's gold earrings | wife's ears | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent earring=Theme out ear=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | wife not said here | earrings = earring | wife's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | wife not said here | something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
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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