The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 43
Ciccu felt very much cast, down at these words, and went to the stable to ask advice of his friend the horse.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: feel, go, ask · To what, where: much cast, words, stable, advice
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 (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 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cast | amod |
| 5 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 down | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 felt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stable | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stable | det |
| 16 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 19 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advice | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friend | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Ciccu | much cast | this words | down property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cast=Theme at word=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | Ciccu not said here | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | advice of Ciccu's friend and the horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
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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