The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 41
One day, therefore, he went to the king, and said that the eleven brothers who had come to the palace a little while ago, and served as stablemen, could do a great deal more than they pretended.
Who acts: Red, eleven brothers, brothers · What happens: go, say, come, serve, do, pretend · To what, where: palace, great deal · 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 (Red, eleven brothers, brothers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brothers | det |
| 16 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brothers | nummod |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 while | amod |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 served | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 served | cc |
| 30 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 stablemen | case |
| 32 | stablemen | stableman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 served | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 served | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 deal | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 deal | amod |
| 38 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obj |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 do | advmod |
| 40 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 42 pretended | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 pretended | nsubj |
| 42 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 more | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Red | day | to the king; therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | the eleven brothers | the palace | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | serve | participle | as stablemen | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as stableman=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | do | could | a great deal | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | pretend | past | brothers = brother | tree rules |
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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