The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 74
The first thing Ciccu did was to order himself some fine clothes, and then buy a grand house, just opposite the palace.
Who acts: Ciccu, first thing · What happens: do, order, buy · To what, where: first thing, Ciccu, grand house
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, first thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 order | nsubj |
| 4 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 order | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 order | mark |
| 8 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 order | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 clothes | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clothes | amod |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 order | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buy | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 buy | advmod |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 order | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buy | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 palace | punct |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 palace | advmod |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buy | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ciccu | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the first thing | Ciccu | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | infinitive | the first thing not said here | a grand house | then | opposite the palace | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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