The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 57
‘No,’ said the youth; he thought he had done enough, and was anxious to go to some other place to serve, and learn other people’s ways; but he would, perhaps, come back to the troll some other time.
Who acts: youth · What happens: say, think, do, be, go, serve · To what, where: youth, other place, ways, 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 (youth), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anxious | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 anxious | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anxious | cop |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anxious | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 place | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 serve | mark |
| 26 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 place | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 learn | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 learn | cc |
| 29 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 people | amod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ways | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 people | case |
| 33 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 learn | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 come | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 would | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 would | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 come | aux |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 would | punct |
| 39 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 41 come | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 perhaps | punct |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 come | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 troll | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 troll | det |
| 45 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 come | obl |
| 46 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 time | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 time | amod |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 come | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | youth | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | youth | enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | anxious property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | some other place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | serve | to-infinitive | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | learn | infinitive | other people's ways | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||||
| 8 | come back | would | the troll | time | perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to troll=Initial_Location |
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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