The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 124

He got his bushel of salt, and then mounted his little white stick, and said,

Who acts: king · What happens: get, mount, say · To what, where: bushel, little white stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king), 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 bushel	nmod:poss
4	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 salt	case
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bushel	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mounted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mounted	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 mounted	advmod
10	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stick	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	past	king	king's bushel of salt		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus
2	mount	past	king not said here	king's little white stick	then	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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