The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 76
That was all very well, but he had nothing to pack up, so he got into the trunk himself.
Who acts: That, last · What happens: be, have, pack up, get · To what, where: nothing, last, trunk
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 (That, last), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 well | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pack | mark |
| 12 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pack | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 trunk | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trunk | det |
| 20 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 got | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | last | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pack up | to-infinitive | last not said here | nothing not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | last | last | the trunk | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trunk=Destination |
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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