The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37
He got his food, but nothing more, and by night he lay just where he could.
Who acts: king · What happens: get, lie · To what, where: food
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 food | nmod:poss |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 more | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 more | nsubj |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 where | advmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 where | aux |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | king | king's food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | king | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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