The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 79
After some time had passed she noticed that every day he came riding home from the forest he took off a blood-stained shirt and put on a clean one.
Who acts: time, queen, man · What happens: pass, notice, come, ride, take off, stain · To what, where: day, forest, stained shirt
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 (time, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 noticed | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 riding | mark |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 riding | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 day | acl:relcl |
| 13 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noticed | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 riding | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 riding | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shirt | det |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stained | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 blood | punct |
| 24 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 shirt | amod |
| 25 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 shirt | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 one | det |
| 30 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 one | amod |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | some time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice | past | queen | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | past | man | every day not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | gerund | queen not said here | the forest | day | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from forest=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | take off | past | man | a stained shirt | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stain | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | put | participle | man not said here | on a clean one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination |
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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