The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 82
He then told her that he had formerly lived a wild life, and had finally entered into a written contract * with the Evil Spirit.
Who acts: man · What happens: tell, live, enter, write · To what, where: queen, wild life, written contract · 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), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lived | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | aux |
| 8 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 entered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 entered | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 entered | aux |
| 16 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 17 entered | advmod |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 contract | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 contract | det |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 contract | amod |
| 21 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obl |
| 22 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 21 contract | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Spirit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Spirit | det |
| 25 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Spirit | compound |
| 26 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 contract | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | queen | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | man | a wild life | formerly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 3 | enter | past · perfect | man not said here | a written contract with the Evil Spirit | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into contract=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/82/