The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 57
He therefore wrote back to his most trusted retainer that the queen and her two whelps should be taken care of while he was away.
Who acts: letter · What happens: write back, trust, take, be · To what, where: trusted retainer, queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 retainer | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 retainer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 trusted | advmod |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 retainer | amod |
| 9 | retainer | retainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 taken | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whelps | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 whelps | nmod:poss |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 whelps | nummod |
| 16 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 queen | conj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 retainer | acl |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 taken | obl |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 away | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write back | past | letter | letter's trusted retainer | therefore property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to retainer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | should · passive | the queen and queen's two whelps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is | past | letter | away property | tree rules |
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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