The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 67
At length he felt he was clean again, and he put on splendid clothes, and hired a beautiful ship, and arrived in state at the king’s palace.
Who acts: hair · What happens: feel, be, put on, hire, arrive · To what, where: length, splendid clothes, beautiful ship, state
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 (hair), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 clean | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clean | cop |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 clean | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hired | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hired | cc |
| 18 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ship | amod |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hired | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arrived | cc |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 state | case |
| 26 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 king | case |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | hair | length | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hair | again | clean property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put on | past | hair | splendid clothes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal | ||||
| 4 | hire | past | hair not said here | a beautiful ship | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 5 | arrive | past | hair not said here | state | at the king's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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