The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 6
The eleven eldest went out with their father to field and forest, but Esben preferred to stay at home with his mother, and so he was never reckoned at all by the rest, but was a sort of outcast among them.
Who acts: eleven, Esben, rest · What happens: go out, prefer, stay, not reckon, be · To what, where: home, man, all, sort
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 (eleven, Esben, rest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eleven | det |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 field | mark |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forest | cc |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 field | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 preferred | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 preferred | cc |
| 15 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 preferred | nsubj |
| 16 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 preferred | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reckoned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reckoned | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 reckoned | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reckoned | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 reckoned | aux:pass |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 reckoned | advmod |
| 30 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 preferred | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 reckoned | obl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 rest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rest | det |
| 35 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reckoned | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sort | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 sort | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sort | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sort | det |
| 40 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 42 | outcast | outcast | ADV | _ | 44 them | advmod |
| 43 | among | among | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sort | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the eleven | with Esben's father and field and forest; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | prefer | past | Esben | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Esben not said here | home | with man's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 4 | not reckon | past · passive | the rest | man | all | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is a | past | a sort | of Esben | 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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