The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 1
Next morning they woke up quite refreshed, and made ready to start on another expedition; but as they did not feel happy about their grandmother they said to her, ‘Grandmother, won’t you come to-day and feed with us?’
Who acts: they, you · What happens: wake up, refresh, make, start, not feel, say · To what, where: expedition, grandmother, her · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, you), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 refreshed | advmod |
| 7 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 refreshed | conj |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 start | mark |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 expedition | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 expedition | det |
| 16 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 start | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 feel | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 feel | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 feel | advmod |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 grandmother | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 happy | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Grandmother | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Grandmother | punct |
| 34 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feel | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 36 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 37 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 come | advmod |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 day | case |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 to | punct |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 feed | cc |
| 44 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 us | case |
| 46 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 feed | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | they | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | refresh | past | they not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | past | they not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | start | to-infinitive | they not said here | another expedition | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not feel | past · do-support | they | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | they | their grandmother not said here | her = she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 7 | not come | future | you | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | feed | present | you not said here | with us | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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.
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