The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 95
While he was wondering how he was to live it suddenly came into his mind that this was the season for the figs to ripen, and he said to himself, ‘I will go and see if the tree has borne well.’
Who acts: Ciccu, this, I · What happens: wonder, be, come, ripen, say, go · To what, where: mind, season, Ciccu, tree · 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, this, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 wondering | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wondering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wondering | aux |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 live | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wondering | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 live | obj |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 season | mark |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 season | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 season | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 season | det |
| 20 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 figs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 figs | det |
| 23 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 season | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 ripen | mark |
| 25 | ripen | ripen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 figs | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 himself | case |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 go | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 go | aux |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 see | cc |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 go | conj |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 borne | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 borne | aux |
| 43 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 see | ccomp |
| 44 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 borne | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Ciccu | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Ciccu | live property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Ciccu's mind | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the season | for the figs | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ripen | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Ciccu | Ciccu | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | bear a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | the tree | well property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 10 | mind | Ciccu | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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