The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 41
Next he took a hatchet, bade farewell to the old man, and departed to the forest.
Who acts: knave · What happens: take, depart · To what, where: hatchet, old man, forest
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 (knave), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hatchet | det |
| 5 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hatchet | conj |
| 8 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 departed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 departed | cc |
| 15 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 departed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | knave | a hatchet and bade | the old man | farewell, next property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme to man=Destination | ||
| 2 | depart | participle | knave not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_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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