The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 34
The next time that there was a market the boy again changed himself to a horse, and was taken thither by his father.
Who acts: next time, boy, father · What happens: be, change, take · To what, where: market, boy
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 (next time, boy, father), 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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 market | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 was | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 market | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 market | det |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 boy | advmod |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 market | acl:relcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 changed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 changed | parataxis |
| 21 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 20 taken | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 market | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the next time | a market | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the boy | boy | to a horse | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past · passive | boy's father | thither property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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