The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 53
So saying he picked up his bundle of sticks, and his brothers did the same.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: say, pick up, do · To what, where: bundle, same · 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 (brothers), 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 | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sticks | case |
| 9 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bundle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 did | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pick up | past | Ciccu's bundle of sticks | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Ciccu's brothers | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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