The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 59
The youth then got his six bushels of money, and with these he betook himself straight to the kingdom which his sweetheart had told him of.
Who acts: youth · What happens: get, betake, tell · To what, where: six bushels, youth, kingdom · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 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 bushels | nmod:poss |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 bushels | nummod |
| 7 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushels | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 betook | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 betook | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 these | case |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 betook | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 betook | nsubj |
| 15 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 betook | obj |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 20 kingdom | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 betook | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 told | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the youth | youth's six bushels of money | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | betake | past | youth | youth | with these; to the kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the kingdom | youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
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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