The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 48
The Man-eater soon heard what everyone was saying, and was glad in his heart, for he thought, ‘Well, it is good news that the thief who stole my sword is dead.’
Who acts: Man eater, everyone, eater, heart, thief · What happens: hear, say, be, think, steal · To what, where: heart, good news, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Man eater, everyone, eater, heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eater | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eater | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 4 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | advmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 saying | obj |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 saying | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | aux |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glad | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glad | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glad | cop |
| 14 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glad | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 news | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 news | punct |
| 24 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 29 news | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Well | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 news | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 news | cop |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 news | amod |
| 29 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 dead | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 thief | det |
| 32 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dead | nsubj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 stole | nsubj |
| 34 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thief | acl:relcl |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sword | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stole | obj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 dead | cop |
| 38 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 news | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Man eater | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | eater's heart | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | eater | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | heart | good news | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | steal | past | the thief | my sword | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | the thief | dead property | tree rules |
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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