The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 102

Then he flew away, bought himself a new dressing-gown, and sat down in the wood and began to make up a story, for it had to be ready by Saturday, and that was no easy matter.

Who acts: father, story, that · What happens: fly away, buy, sit down, begin, make up, have · To what, where: father, wood, story, easy matter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, story, that), 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	3 flew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bought	punct
6	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bought	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gown	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gown	amod
10	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gown	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 dressing	punct
12	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 make	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 had	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 make	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 ready	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 ready	cop
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 had	xcomp
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 Saturday	case
35	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ready	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 matter	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 matter	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 matter	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 matter	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 matter	det
41	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 matter	amod
42	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	father			then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	past	father not said here	father				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary gown=Theme
3	sit down	past	father not said here		the wood			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
4	begin	past	father not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make up	to-infinitive	father not said here	a story				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
6	have	past	story					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	to-infinitive	story not said here			saturday	ready property	tree rules
8	is a	past	that	no easy matter				tree rules

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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