The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 16
The boy went and took the king’s arm, but, being only a child, he did not lift it up very gently on to the bench.
Who acts: boy, king · What happens: go, take, be, not lift up · To what, where: arm, child, bench
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 (boy, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 child | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 child | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 child | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 child | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lift | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lift | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lift | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 lift | advmod |
| 21 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lift | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 lift | compound:prt |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 gently | advmod |
| 25 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 26 on | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 lift | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bench | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bench | det |
| 29 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lift | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the boy not said here | the king's arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | a child | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not lift up | past · do-support | king | arm | the bench | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bench=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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