The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 62
By-and-bye the old man came back, and at once began to ask for his pet.
Who acts: old man · What happens: come back, begin, ask
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 9 came | discourse |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 began | obl |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 pet | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the old man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | for man's pet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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