The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 37
Then the Don went to an inn, where he hired two rooms, and, standing in one of them, said to his purse, ‘ Dear purse, fill this room with gold;’ and when the eight days were up it was so full you could not have put in another sovereign.
Who acts: Don, eight days, you · What happens: go, hire, stand, say, fill, be · To what, where: inn, two rooms, purse, room, sovereign · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Don, eight days, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Don | det |
| 3 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 inn | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 inn | det |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hired | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 hired | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hired | nsubj |
| 11 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 rooms | nummod |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hired | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 standing | punct |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 standing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 standing | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 purse | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 purse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 purse | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 purse | punct |
| 29 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 purse | amod |
| 30 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 purse | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fill | punct |
| 32 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | parataxis |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 room | det |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fill | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fill | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 full | cc |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 49 full | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 days | det |
| 42 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 days | nummod |
| 43 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 full | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 full | cop |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 49 full | mark |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 full | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 full | cop |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 49 full | advmod |
| 49 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | conj |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 put | nsubj |
| 51 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 put | aux |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 put | advmod |
| 53 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 put | aux |
| 54 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 full | conj |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 sovereign | case |
| 56 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 sovereign | det |
| 57 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 put | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Don | a inn | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hire | past | Don | two rooms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | in one of rooms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Don not said here | Don's purse and Dear purse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to purse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive | this room | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with gold=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the eight days | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not put | could · perfect | you | another sovereign | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sovereign=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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