The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 28
So the master went out and called from some distance off, for he was really afraid to go near the man, ‘You filthy beggar, leave my house at once!’
Who acts: master, You · What happens: go out, call off, be, go, beggar, leave · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, You), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 distance | det |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afraid | xcomp |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beggar | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 beggar | punct |
| 25 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 beggar | nsubj |
| 26 | filthy | filthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beggar | amod |
| 27 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leave | punct |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | parataxis |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leave | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 once | case |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 leave | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the master | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call off speech: assert | participle | the master not said here | from some distance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from distance=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | master | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | master not said here | near the man | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near man=Location | ||||
| 5 | beggar | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | my house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at once=Location |
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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