The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 133
However, he plucked them, as they had agreed, and set out for the king’s palace.
Who acts: Ciccu, figs · What happens: pluck, agree, set out · To what, where: figs
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 (Ciccu, figs), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plucked | nsubj |
| 4 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plucked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 agreed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 agreed | aux |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 plucked | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 plucked | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | Ciccu | figs = fig | however property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | figs = fig | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Ciccu not said here | for the king's palace | 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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