The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 16
The prince got a little axe and set to work at once.
Who acts: prince · What happens: get, set, work · To what, where: little axe
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 axe | amod |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 work | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the prince | a little axe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=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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