The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 103
At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again he went about and planned how to get the brothers into trouble.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: possess, go about, plan, get · To what, where: Red, brothers, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Red | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Red | nsubj |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Red | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 possessed | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 possessed | aux:pass |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 possessed | advmod |
| 7 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 anger | case |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possessed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 envy | cc |
| 11 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anger | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 possessed | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 planned | cc |
| 19 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 planned | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brothers | det |
| 24 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 trouble | case |
| 26 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past · passive | Red Sir | again | with anger and envy | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» | |||
| 2 | go about | past | Sir | again | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | plan | past | Sir not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | the brothers | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
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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