The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 77
She was surprised at this, but thought that the man would get the blood on his shirt when he was carrying home venison.
Who acts: queen, man · What happens: be, think, get, carry · To what, where: this, blood, shirt, venison · 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 (queen, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 surprised | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shirt | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 carrying | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carrying | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carrying | aux |
| 22 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 get | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 carrying | advmod |
| 24 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carrying | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | queen | this | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | would | the man | the blood | man's shirt | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme on shirt=Source | |||
| 4 | carry | past · progressive | man | venison | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venison=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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