The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 79
This was already close to the church, and the smith wanted to take part in carrying the coffin, like a good neighbour.
Who acts: This, smith · What happens: be, want, take, carry · To what, where: part, coffin
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 (This, smith), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 close | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 close | advmod |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smith | det |
| 11 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 carrying | mark |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 take | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coffin | det |
| 19 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 neighbour | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 neighbour | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 neighbour | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neighbour | amod |
| 24 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | to the church; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the smith | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the smith not said here | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the smith not said here | the coffin | like a good neighbour | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme |
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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