The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 78
And the girl picked it up sadly, and returned quite in despair to the king’s palace.
Who acts: girl · What happens: pick up, return · To what, where: coat, despair
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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 picked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 despair | case |
| 13 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the girl | coat | sadly property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | return | past | the girl not said here | despair | to the king's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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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