The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 69
The king thanked them many times for the dove, and gave them in return both silver and gold.
Who acts: king · What happens: thank, give · To what, where: Esben, return
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dove | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dove | det |
| 9 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 return | case |
| 15 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 17 silver | cc:preconj |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gold | cc |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the king | Esben | time | for the dove | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dove=Attribute | ||
| 2 | give | past | the king not said here | Esben | return both silver and gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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