The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 13
Then they built a little hut where they might take shelter, and set to work.
Who acts: sons · What happens: build, take, set, work · To what, where: little hut, shelter
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 (sons), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 built | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hut | amod |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 take | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hut | acl:relcl |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 built | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 work | mark |
| 16 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | sons = son | a little hut | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product | |||
| 2 | take | might | sons = son | shelter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | sons = son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | vn employment-95.3 «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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