The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 107
‘What does a shrivelled old grey thing like that want with a pretty young bride?’ thought the brothers, and went on their way.
Who acts: shrivelled old grey thing · What happens: do, want, think, go · To what, where: shrivelled old grey thing, brothers, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrivelled old grey thing), 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 | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | parataxis |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 5 | shrivelled | shrivelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 want | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bride | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bride | det |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bride | amod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bride | amod |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brothers | det |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thought | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a shrivelled old grey thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | present | a shrivelled old grey thing | a shrivelled old grey thing not said here | with a pretty young bride | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the brothers | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | brides's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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