The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 31
When the bag was full Ciccu put it on his shoulder and stole into the house of the Man-eater (who had gone to look for his dinner) and let them all out in his bedroom.
Who acts: bag, Ciccu, Man eater · What happens: be, put, steal, go, look, let out · To what, where: bag, shoulder, house, friends, bedroom
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 (bag, Ciccu, Man eater), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 full | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bag | det |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stole | cc |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eater | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eater | det |
| 19 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eater | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Man | punct |
| 21 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 eater | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 gone | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 dinner | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 let | cc |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 full | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 let | obj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 let | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 bedroom | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 let | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bag | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Ciccu | bag | Ciccu's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | steal | past | Ciccu not said here | the house of the Man eater | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | the Man eater | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | the Man eater not said here | for Ciccu's dinner | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dinner=Theme | ||||
| 6 | let out | infinitive | the bag not said here | friends = friend | Ciccu's bedroom | out property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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