The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 75
But one of them who was rather good-natured sent him an old trunk with the message, ‘Pack up!”
Who acts: one · What happens: be, send, pack up · To what, where: old trunk, last
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 (one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 natured | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 natured | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 natured | cop |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 natured | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 natured | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 10 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sent | parataxis |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trunk | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trunk | amod |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 message | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 message | det |
| 18 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trunk | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pack | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pack | punct |
| 21 | Pack | pack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 Pack | compound:prt |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pack | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one of friends | natured property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | a old trunk | last | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination trunk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pack up | infinitive | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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