The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 112

But the old man only repeated his question, and Peppe, to get rid of him, exclaimed in anger, ‘Dirt.’

Who acts: old man, Peppe, man · What happens: repeat, get, exclaim, question · To what, where: question, Dirt, anger

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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, Peppe, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 repeated	cc
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	6 repeated	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 repeated	advmod
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 question	nmod:poss
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
11	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 get	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeated	conj
15	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exclaimed	punct
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 get	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 anger	case
21	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exclaimed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Dirt	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Dirt	punct
24	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exclaimed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 repeated	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	the old man	man's question			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	Peppe			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	exclaim speech: express	participle	Peppe not said here	Dirt	anger		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	question		man				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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