The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 89
Then he took up the coverlet, and wished he was safe in his own house.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: take up, wish, be · To what, where: coverlet, own house · 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 (Ciccu), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coverlet | det |
| 6 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 safe | cop |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wished | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 safe | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Ciccu | the coverlet | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Ciccu not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's own house | safe property | 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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