The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 116

‘They will go into one kennel and gnaw the same bone!’

Who acts: Lovers · What happens: go, gnaw · To what, where: one kennel, same bone

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lovers), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 kennel	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kennel	nummod
7	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gnaw	cc
9	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bone	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bone	amod
12	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gnaw	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	Lovers = lover			one kennel			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kennel=Initial_Location
2	gnaw	present	Lovers = lover not said here	the same bone					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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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