The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 54
Esben was now put into a little dark hole, where he neither saw sun nor moon, and there he was fed on sweet milk and nut-kernels.
Who acts: property · What happens: put, see, feed · To what, where: Esben, little dark hole, sun, property, sweet milk
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 (property), 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hole | amod |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hole | amod |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 saw | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hole | conj |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 moon | cc |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fed | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 fed | expl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fed | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fed | aux:pass |
| 23 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 milk | case |
| 25 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 milk | amod |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kernels | cc |
| 28 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kernels | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 nut | punct |
| 30 | kernels | kernel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 milk | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Esben | a little dark hole | now | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | see | past | property | sun nor moon | neither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | feed | past · passive | property | sweet milk and nut kernels; there | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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