The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 77
The old debt was honestly paid, and the king got his bond back again.
Who acts: king, troll · What happens: pay, get back, bond · To what, where: old debt, bond
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 (king, troll), 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 | 3 debt | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 debt | amod |
| 3 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paid | aux:pass |
| 5 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 6 paid | advmod |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paid | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bond | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | the old debt | honestly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | get back | past | the king | troll's bond | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bond=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bond | troll | nom bond «phenomenon 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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