The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 9
He found his enemy before his house, very busy making a box, and addressed him politely, ‘Good morning, your worship.
Who acts: man, your · What happens: find, make, address, worship · To what, where: enemy, box, man
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 (man, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 busy | advmod |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | amod |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 found | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 addressed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 addressed | cc |
| 16 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 addressed | obj |
| 18 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 16 addressed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 morning | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 morning | punct |
| 21 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 morning | amod |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 addressed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 worship | punct |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 worship | nmod:poss |
| 25 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 morning | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | man | man's enemy | before man's house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | man not said here | a box | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset box=Product | ||||
| 3 | address | past | man | morning | politely property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 4 | worship | your | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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