The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 92
Ciccu, who by this time had hoped for a little peace, felt his heart sink at this fresh errand, and he went into the stable to complain to the faithful horse.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: hope, feel, go, complain · To what, where: heart sink, fresh errand, stable, faithful horse
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 | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hoped | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hoped | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hoped | obl |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hoped | aux |
| 8 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Ciccu | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 peace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 peace | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peace | amod |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hoped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ciccu | punct |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sink | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sink | compound |
| 17 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 errand | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 errand | det |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 errand | amod |
| 21 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 stable | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stable | det |
| 28 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 complain | mark |
| 30 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 went | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 horse | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 33 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 horse | amod |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 complain | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect | Ciccu | time | for a little peace | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for peace=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's heart sink | this fresh errand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sink=Theme at errand=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Ciccu | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | the faithful horse | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=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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