The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 55
Esben got his bag of peas; then he took his white stick, and said,
Who acts: Esben, king · What happens: get, take, say · To what, where: bag, 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 (Esben, 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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 bag | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 peas | case |
| 6 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bag | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 took | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | 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 | 13 stick | nmod:poss |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stick | amod |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Esben | king's bag of peas | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bag=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | king | king's white stick | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 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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