The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 120
This was done, and Peppe returned home, sore and angry, but determined to say nothing about his adventure.
Who acts: Peppe, king · What happens: do, return, say, adventure · To what, where: This, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Peppe, king), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 6 | Peppe | Peppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | parataxis |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 returned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sore | punct |
| 10 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 angry | cc |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sore | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 determined | cc |
| 15 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sore | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 adventure | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | return | past | Peppe | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | nothing | about king's adventure | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | adventure | king | nom adventure «act 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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