The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 129
But by-and-by I grew too big, and I was given to the housekeeper, and I went into the kitchen.
Who acts: I · What happens: grow, give, go · To what, where: I, housekeeper, kitchen
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 (I), 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 | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 grew | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 housekeeper | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 housekeeper | det |
| 18 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 kitchen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kitchen | det |
| 25 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | I | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | I | the housekeeper | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to housekeeper=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | I | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location |
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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