The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 78
So the old man chose the small chest, and hid it under his cloak, and set out on his homeward way.
Who acts: old man · What happens: choose, hide, set out · To what, where: small chest, present, cloak, homeward way
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 chose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | nsubj |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chest | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chest | amod |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hid | cc |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chose | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hid | obj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 cloak | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chose | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | compound |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | the old man | the small chest | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | the old man not said here | present | man's cloak | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under cloak=Location | |||
| 3 | set out | past | the old man not said here | man's homeward way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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