The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 97
Presently the old man came home, and complained of feeling ill.
Who acts: old man · What happens: come, complain
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 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 complained | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 complained | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 complained | cc |
| 9 | complained | complain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feeling | case |
| 11 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 complained | obl |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 complained | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old man | home, presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | participle | of feeling; ill property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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