The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 49
But Ciccu bought an axe and a saw, and cut down a pine tree in the nearest wood, and began to hew it into planks.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: buy, cut down, begin, hew · To what, where: axe, pine tree, nearest wood, tree, planks
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 bought | cc |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 saw | det |
| 8 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 axe | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bought | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 18 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 wood | amod |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hew | mark |
| 24 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hew | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 planks | case |
| 27 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Ciccu | a axe and a saw | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut down | participle | Ciccu not said here | a pine tree | the nearest wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Ciccu not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hew | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | tree | into planks result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into plank=Result |
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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