The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 24
Then our friend staggered into his own hut and called to his wife: ‘Ichou! how tired I am!
Who acts: friend, Ichou · What happens: stagger, call, be · To what, where: own hut, wife · 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 (friend, Ichou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 staggered | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 staggered | nsubj |
| 4 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hut | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hut | amod |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 staggered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hut | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ichou | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ichou | punct |
| 16 | Ichou | Ichou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ichou | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 tired | advmod |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 staggered | advcl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 staggered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger | past | our friend | friend's own hut | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | friend's own hut not said here | friend's wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Ichou | tired property | tree rules |
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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