The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 64
When they were out of sight Ciccu asked the landlord how much he owed, and then said to his purse, ‘Dear purse, give me, I pray you, six florins,’ and instantly six florins were in the purse.
Who acts: brothers, sight, Ciccu, I, six florins · What happens: be, ask, owe, say, give, pray · To what, where: sight, landlord, much, me, you, purse · 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, sight, Ciccu, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sight | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sight | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sight | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 landlord | det |
| 10 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 owed | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 owed | nsubj |
| 14 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 said | advmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 purse | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 purse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 purse | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 purse | punct |
| 24 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 purse | amod |
| 25 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 purse | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 give | iobj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pray | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | nsubj |
| 31 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 florins | punct |
| 34 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 florins | nummod |
| 35 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pray | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 florins | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 florins | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 purse | cc |
| 39 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 40 six | advmod |
| 40 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 florins | nummod |
| 41 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 purse | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 purse | cop |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 purse | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 purse | det |
| 45 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pray | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers = brother | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | sight | the landlord | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent landlord=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | owe | past | Ciccu | much | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | then | to Ciccu's purse and Dear purse | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to purse=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pray | present | I | you | six florins obl | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is | past | six florins | the purse | tree rules |
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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