The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 116
‘Bake some bread,’ was all her husband answered, ‘then take the crust and put it in this little bag.’
Who acts: you, husband · What happens: bake, be, take, put · To what, where: bread, crust, little bag
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
| 2 | Bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bread | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bake | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bake | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bake | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crust | det |
| 17 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bag | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 bag | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bag | amod |
| 24 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | imperative | you not said here | some bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Paris's husband | all, answer property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the crust | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | crust | this little bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=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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