The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 3
Our friend pretended to do the same, but in reality he slipped the stones into his pouch, and swallowed the crusts of bread instead.
Who acts: friend · What happens: pretend, do, slip, swallow · To what, where: same, stones, reality, crusts
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), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 slipped | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 reality | case |
| 11 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slipped | nsubj |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stones | det |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slipped | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pouch | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallowed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swallowed | cc |
| 21 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crusts | det |
| 23 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 swallowed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bread | case |
| 25 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crusts | nmod |
| 26 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 21 swallowed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Our friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Our friend not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | slip | past | friend | the stones | reality | into friend's pouch | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||
| 4 | swallow | past | Our friend not said here | the crusts of bread | instead property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient |
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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