The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 45
Ciccu did as he was bid, and the two set out together.
Who acts: Ciccu, two · What happens: do, bid, set out · To what, where: Ciccu
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, two), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bid | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bid | aux:pass |
| 6 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ciccu | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | Ciccu | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | the two | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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