The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 24
The king gave them many fine presents, but Esben did not get even so much as thanks from them.
Who acts: king, Esben · What happens: give, not get · To what, where: many fine presents, brothers, much
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 (king, Esben), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | 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 gave | iobj |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 presents | amod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 presents | amod |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 thanks | case |
| 18 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 much | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thanks | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | many fine presents | brothers = brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme | |||
| 2 | not get | past · do-support | Esben | much | as thanks from brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as thanks=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/29/24/