The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 83
Before this contract had expired he had repented and turned from his evil ways, and withdrawn himself to this solitude.
Who acts: man · What happens: expire, repent, turn · To what, where: evil ways
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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 contract | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 contract | det |
| 3 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expired | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expired | aux |
| 5 | expired | expire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repented | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 repented | aux |
| 8 | repented | repent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 expired | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 repented | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ways | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ways | nmod:poss |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ways | amod |
| 14 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 himself | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 himself | cc |
| 17 | withdrawn | withdrawn | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 expired | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 solitude | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 solitude | det |
| 21 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expired | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expire | past · perfect | before this contract | withdrawn man; to this solitude | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repent | past · perfect | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | participle | man not said here | man's evil ways | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from way=Trajectory |
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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