The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 25
He told these to change night-caps with the witch’s daughters.
Who acts: addition, these · What happens: tell, change · To what, where: these, night caps · 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 (addition, these), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 told | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 change | mark |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caps | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 8 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 daughters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 witch | case |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | addition | these | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | change not said to happen | to-infinitive | these not said here | night caps | with the witch's daughters | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent cap=Theme with daughter=Co-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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