The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 84
After this it did not take him long to get out of his cage, or to treat the closely barred windows of the hall in the same manner.
Who acts: it · What happens: not take, get out, treat, bar · To what, where: Girouette, cage, barred windows, same manner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 take | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 take | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cage | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cage | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 treat | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 treat | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 treat | mark |
| 18 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 windows | det |
| 20 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 21 barred | advmod |
| 21 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 windows | amod |
| 22 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 treat | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 windows | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 manner | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 manner | amod |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treat | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | it | Girouette | after this | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||
| 2 | get out | to-infinitive | Girouette's cage | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | treat | to-infinitive | the barred windows of the hall | the same manner | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent window=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bar | participle | closely property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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