The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 63
Then he put the body in his boat and rowed to land, and told the old man that his enemy was dead at last.
Who acts: hare, enemy · What happens: put, row, land, tell, be · To what, where: body, boat, old man, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hare, enemy), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rowed | cc |
| 10 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 land | mark |
| 12 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rowed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 dead | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 told | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dead | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | hare | the body | hare's boat | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in boat=Destination | ||
| 2 | row | past | hare not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | hare not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | hare not said here | the old man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | hare's enemy | last | dead property | 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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