The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 48
And the Wind listened, and was sorry for her, and he gave her a walnut that she was to eat in time of need.
Who acts: Wind, lord · What happens: listen, be, give · To what, where: walnut, Wind
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind, lord), 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 | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorry | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 listened | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 walnut | det |
| 17 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 need | case |
| 26 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Wind | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Wind not said here | for Wind; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | lord | a walnut | Wind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient walnut=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | Wind | time | eat property | tree rules |
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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