The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 5
Next day he got his old task of feeding all the wild beasts.
Who acts: troll, old task · What happens: get, feed, task · To what, where: old task, wild beasts
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, old task), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 task | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 task | amod |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 feeding | mark |
| 9 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 task | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 beasts | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beasts | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beasts | amod |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feeding | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | troll | troll's old task | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer task=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | feed | gerund | troll's old task not said here | all wild beasts | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | task | troll | nom task «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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