The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 60
He got his money buried in a lonely spot close to the king’s palace, and then went in there and asked to be taken into service.
Who acts: youth · What happens: get, bury, go in, ask, take · To what, where: money, lonely spot, service · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 money | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 8 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buried | obl |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | aux:pass |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 asked | ccomp |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 service | case |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | youth | youth's money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | youth's money not said here | a lonely spot | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in spot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go in | past | there | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into service=Destination |
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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