The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 71

He lived very merrily; he went every night to the theatre, made paper kites out of five-pound notes, and played ducks and drakes with sovereigns instead of stones.

Who acts: son, made paper · What happens: live, go, make, kite, play · To what, where: theatre, pound notes, ducks

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 (son, made paper), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 merrily	advmod
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 theatre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 theatre	det
12	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 paper	amod
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kites	nsubj
16	kites	kite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 theatre	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	22 notes	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 notes	case
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pound	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 five	punct
21	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 notes	compound
22	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kites	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 played	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 played	cc
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
26	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drakes	cc
28	drakes	drake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ducks	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 sovereigns	case
30	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	obl
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	33 stones	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sovereigns	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	son				merrily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	son		the theatre	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location
3	make	participle						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	kite	present	made paper	the theatre not said here	pound notes			tree rules
5	play	past	son not said here	ducks and drakes			with sovereigns instead stones	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent duck=Theme with sovereign=Co-Agent

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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