The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 71
The man answered that he had a little hut in the forest, and that she could rest there; but he also said that he was one who lived entirely apart from men, and owned no more than the hut, a horse, and a dog, and supported himself by hunting.
Who acts: man, queen, one · What happens: answer, have, rest, say, be, live · To what, where: little hut, forest, one, more, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, queen, one), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hut | amod |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hut | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rest | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rest | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rest | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rest | aux |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | conj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 rest | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 one | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 one | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 one | cop |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 30 lived | advmod |
| 32 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 30 lived | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 men | case |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lived | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 owned | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 owned | cc |
| 37 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 38 | no | no | ADV | _ | 39 more | advmod |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 owned | obj |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 hut | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 hut | det |
| 42 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 more | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 horse | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 horse | det |
| 45 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hut | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 dog | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 dog | cc |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 dog | det |
| 49 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 owned | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 supported | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 supported | cc |
| 52 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 53 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 52 supported | obj |
| 54 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 55 hunting | mark |
| 55 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 52 supported | advcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | man | a little hut | the forest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Patient | |||
| 3 | rest | could | queen | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | man | one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | past | one | from men; apart, entirely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | own | past | man not said here | more | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 8 | support | past | man not said here | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | hunt | gerund | man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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