The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 10
He piled all he could see on his back--chairs, tables, wardrobes, chests of gold and silver--till there was nothing left to pile.
Who acts: man, all, nothing · What happens: pile, see, be, leave · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, all, nothing), 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 piled | nsubj |
| 2 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 piled | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 chairs | punct |
| 11 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 back | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tables | punct |
| 13 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chairs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wardrobes | punct |
| 15 | wardrobes | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tables | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chests | punct |
| 17 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tables | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chests | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 silver | cc |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gold | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 was | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 was | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 nothing | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 pile | mark |
| 29 | pile | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 left | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | could | all | man's back and chairs and tables and wardrobes and chests of gold and silver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pile | to-infinitive | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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