The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 56
So he rode through the forest till he came where the fig-tree stood, and cut a slit in the bark, and waited.
Who acts: brother, fig tree · What happens: ride, come, stand, cut, wait · To what, where: forest, slit, bark
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, fig tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fig | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 slit | det |
| 20 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bark | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bark | det |
| 23 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 waited | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 waited | cc |
| 26 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | brother | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the fig tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cut | infinitive | a slit | the bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slit=Product | ||||
| 5 | wait | past | brother not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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