The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 17
But the hermit bade him call the man who had the fog in his sack, and the sack was opened and the fog flew out, and hung right round the king’s ships, so that they could see nothing.
Who acts: hermit, man, fog, sailors · What happens: call, have, open, fly out, hang, see · To what, where: hermit bade, fog, sack, ships, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hermit, man, fog, sailors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 call | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fog | det |
| 12 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sack | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fog | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sack | det |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | aux:pass |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 call | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 flew | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fog | det |
| 24 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 flew | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hung | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hung | cc |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flew | conj |
| 30 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 hung | advmod |
| 31 | round | round | ADP | _ | 35 ships | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ships | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 king | case |
| 35 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hung | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 see | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 41 see | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 see | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 see | aux |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hung | conj |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 see | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | hermit | the hermit bade | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the man | the fog | hermit's sack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Patient | |||
| 3 | open | past · passive | the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly out | past | the fog | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hang | past | the fog not said here | the king's ships | right property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round ship=Destination | |||
| 6 | see | could | sailors = sailor | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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