The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 14

‘Was it also you that took my boar?’

Who acts: ‘, you · What happens: be, take · To what, where: you, boar

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, you), 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 you	nsubj
2	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 you	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boar	nmod:poss
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	‘	you					tree rules
2	take	past	you	my boar					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=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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