The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 68
This mission seemed to Ciccu a hundred times worse than either of the others, and with tears in his eyes he took his way to the stables.
Who acts: mission · What happens: seem, take · To what, where: Ciccu, way, stables
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 (mission), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mission | det |
| 2 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Ciccu | case |
| 5 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 worse | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 either | case |
| 11 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 worse | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 either | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 took | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tears | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stables | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stables | det |
| 28 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this mission | Ciccu | bad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | mission | Ciccu's way | the stables | with tears in Ciccu's eyes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to stable=Destination |
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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