The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 87
Off went the stick with him, and very soon he was again in the witch’s courtyard.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: go, be · To what, where: stick, courtyard
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 (Sir), 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stick | det |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 courtyard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 courtyard | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 courtyard | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 courtyard | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 courtyard | cop |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 courtyard | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the stick | with Sir; off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Sir | the witch's courtyard | again | soon property | 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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