The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 189
‘That is the raker they use to clean out the stove!
Who acts: That, boys · What happens: be, use, clean out · To what, where: raker, stove
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 (That, boys), 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 | _ | 5 raker | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 raker | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raker | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 raker | det |
| 5 | raker | raker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 use | nsubj |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raker | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 clean | mark |
| 9 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 clean | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stove | det |
| 12 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clean | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 raker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the raker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present | boys = boy | the raker not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raker=Patient | ||||
| 3 | clean out | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | the stove | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=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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