The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 25
But there was much to attend to, and he must give careful heed to all that she told him.
Who acts: troll, girl · What happens: be, attend, give, tell · To what, where: careful heed, troll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 much | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 attend | mark |
| 6 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 attend | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | parataxis |
| 13 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heed | amod |
| 14 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 that | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 told | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | much property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | must | troll | careful heed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | troll | to that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to that=Recipient |
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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