The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 30
And on his return the old fellow asked what it all meant.
Who acts: old fellow, heart, husband · What happens: ask, mean, return · To what, where: return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fellow, heart, husband), 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 | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 return | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 return | nmod:poss |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 meant | obj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meant | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 meant | advmod |
| 12 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the old fellow | husband's return | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | heart | all property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | husband | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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