The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 89
The fairy had pity on his youth and want of faith, and took care that one end of the thread remained in his hand.
Who acts: fairy, one end · What happens: have, want, take, remain · To what, where: pity, youth, care, hand
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 (fairy, one end), 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 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 youth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 youth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 want | cc |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 faith | case |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 want | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 remained | mark |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 end | nummod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remained | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thread | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thread | det |
| 21 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remained | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the fairy | pity | Girouette's youth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 2 | want | present | the fairy not said here | of faith | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the fairy not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | one end of the thread | Girouette's hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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