The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 27
So she did what she was bid, and then her husband took the nyamatsane’s liver from his pouch and said to her, ‘There, I have brought you what you wanted, and now you know that I love you truly.’
Who acts: Ichou, husband, I, you · What happens: do, bid, take, say, bring, want · To what, where: Ichou, liver, pouch, you · 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 (Ichou, husband, I, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 took | advmod |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nyamatsane | det |
| 15 | nyamatsane | nyamatsane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 liver | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 nyamatsane | case |
| 17 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pouch | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brought | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 brought | punct |
| 27 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 brought | expl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brought | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 brought | aux |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 said | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 brought | obj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 wanted | nsubj |
| 35 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 what | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 know | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 know | cc |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 know | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 know | nsubj |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 love | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 love | nsubj |
| 43 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 know | ccomp |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 love | obj |
| 45 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 43 love | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ichou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | Ichou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Ichou's husband | the nyamatsane's liver | husband's pouch | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent liver=Theme from pouch=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Ichou's husband not said here | Ichou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect | I | you | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination what=Theme | |||
| 6 | want | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | know | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | love | present | I | you | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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