The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 1
But at daybreak the woodcutter started off into the wood, and this time asked his second daughter to bring his food.
Who acts: woodcutter, time · What happens: start off, ask, bring · To what, where: daybreak, second daughter, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter, time), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 started | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 daybreak | case |
| 3 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woodcutter | det |
| 5 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 daughter | amod |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the woodcutter | daybreak | into the wood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | this time | woodcutter's second daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | woodcutter's food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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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