The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 89
In the long run he decided to hold on his way, and let things go as they liked.
Who acts: brother, things · What happens: decide, hold on, let, go, like · To what, where: long run, way, things
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, things), 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 | _ | 4 run | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 run | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 run | amod |
| 4 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hold | mark |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decided | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hold | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hold | conj |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 liked | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 liked | nsubj |
| 19 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | brother | the long run | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold on not said to happen | to-infinitive | brother not said here | brother's way | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | brother not said here | things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | things not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | like | past | Things = thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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