The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 44
And so towards evening she got the tailor dressed up in a shaggy fur coat, tied a black woollen cloth round his head, and chained him up beside the dog’s kennel.’
Who acts: wool · What happens: get, dress up, tie, chain up · To what, where: tailor, shaggy fur coat, black woollen cloth, man, kennel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wool), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tailor | det |
| 8 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tailor | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 dressed | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 coat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coat | det |
| 13 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coat | amod |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coat | compound |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dressed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tied | punct |
| 17 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloth | amod |
| 20 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloth | amod |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tied | obj |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cloth | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chained | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 chained | cc |
| 27 | chained | chain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 chained | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 chained | compound:prt |
| 30 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 34 kennel | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dog | det |
| 32 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kennel | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 dog | case |
| 34 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chained | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | wool | the tailor | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dress up | participle | the tailor not said here | a shaggy fur coat | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | wool not said here | a black woollen cloth | round man's head | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | |||
| 4 | chain up | past | wool not said here | man | the dog's kennel | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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