The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 89
The grocer seized his account books. and the maid her black silk dress.
Who acts: grocer · What happens: seize · To what, where: account books
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), 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 | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 books | nmod:poss |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 books | compound |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 maid | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dress | amod |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dress | compound |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the grocer | Grocer's account books | 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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