The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 23
The man then took him into his service, and all the work he had to do was to dust his master’s books.
Who acts: man, work, boy · What happens: take, have, do, be, service · To what, where: boy, service, work
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, work, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 service | nmod:poss |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dust | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dust | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 work | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 work | det |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dust | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 work | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dust | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 dust | mark |
| 20 | dust | dust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 master | nmod:poss |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 books | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 master | case |
| 24 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dust | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the man | boy | boy's service | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into service=Destination | ||
| 2 | have | past | man | all work not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | all work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all work | dust property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | service | boy | nom service «act transitive»: 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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