The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 56
Then they followed the old man, and said to him, ‘My eldest brother wishes to seek for the water of life, and the tree of beauty, and the talking bird, that you tell him are needful to make our palace perfect.
Who acts: things, eldest brother, you, man · What happens: follow, say, wish, seek, tell, be · To what, where: old man, man, talking bird, tree, palace · 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 (things, eldest brother, you, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wishes | nsubj |
| 17 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 tell | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seek | mark |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wishes | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tree | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 beauty | case |
| 30 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bird | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bird | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bird | det |
| 34 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bird | compound |
| 35 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wishes | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tell | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 tell | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 tell | nsubj |
| 39 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 needful | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 needful | cop |
| 42 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tell | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 make | mark |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 needful | xcomp |
| 45 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 palace | nmod:poss |
| 46 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | obj |
| 47 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 make | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | things = thing | the old man | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | things = thing not said here | man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | My eldest brother | the talking bird | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tree of beauty | for the water of life | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | man | needful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | man not said here | our palace | perfect property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product |
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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