The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 18
‘And I five florins and some sweets, which you can divide between you, for the king has taken me into his service.’
Who acts: sweets, king · What happens: divide, take, service · To what, where: me, service
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweets, king), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 florins | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 florins | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 florins | nsubj |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 florins | nummod |
| 5 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sweets | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sweets | det |
| 8 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 florins | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 divide | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 divide | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 divide | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 divide | aux |
| 13 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sweets | parataxis |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 divide | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taken | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 divide | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 service | nmod:poss |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 florins | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 florins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | can | some sweets | between you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | the king | me | king's service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 3 | service | king | nom service «act 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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