The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 112
In a moment he stood before the grave of his parents, and the date written on the stone was almost exactly the date when they had lost their son, and he had forsaken them for the Daughter of the Sea.
Who acts: man, date, stones · What happens: stand, write, be, lose, forsake · To what, where: grave, date, stone, son, stones
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 (man, date, stones), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 grave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grave | det |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 parents | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grave | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 date | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 date | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 date | det |
| 15 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 date | nsubj |
| 16 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 date | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 written | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 date | cop |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 exactly | advmod |
| 22 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 24 date | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 date | det |
| 24 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 lost | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lost | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lost | aux |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 date | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lost | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forsaken | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 forsaken | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forsaken | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 forsaken | aux |
| 35 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forsaken | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 Daughter | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Daughter | det |
| 39 | Daughter | Daughter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 forsaken | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Sea | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Sea | det |
| 42 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Daughter | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | man | the grave of man's parents | moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before grave=Location | |||
| 2 | write | participle | the date not said here | the stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the date | the date | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | stones = stone | stones's son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | forsake | past · perfect | man | stones = stone | for the Daughter of the Sea | 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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