The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 21
‘That will I do with all my heart,’ answered the youth, and began to divide all his treasures, putting part on one side for himself and setting aside the other for his friend.
Who acts: That, hermit · What happens: do, answer, begin, divide, put, set · To what, where: youth, treasures, part, one side, other
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 (That, hermit), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 heart | det:predet |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 divide | mark |
| 19 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 treasures | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 divide | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 putting | punct |
| 24 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 began | advcl |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 putting | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 side | nummod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 putting | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 putting | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 setting | cc |
| 32 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 putting | conj |
| 33 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 32 setting | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 setting | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 friend | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 friend | nmod:poss |
| 38 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 setting | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | That | with my heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | divide | to-infinitive | hermit's treasures | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put | gerund | part | one side | for hermit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 6 | set | gerund | the other | for hermit's friend; aside property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent other=Patient for friend=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | treasure | hermit | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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