The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 44
And so he bought rockets, crackers, and all the kinds of fireworks you can think of, put them in his trunk, and flew up with them into the air.
Who acts: maid, kinds · What happens: buy, think, put, fly up · To what, where: rockets, kinds, trunk, air
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 (maid, kinds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bought | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 bought | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crackers | punct |
| 7 | crackers | cracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rockets | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 kinds | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kinds | det |
| 12 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 think | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fireworks | case |
| 14 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kinds | nmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bought | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 think | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trunk | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bought | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 flew | compound:prt |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 flew | obl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 air | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 air | det |
| 33 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | maid | rockets and crackers | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | can | all kinds of fireworks | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | all kinds of fireworks not said here | kinds = kind | maid's trunk | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in trunk=Destination | |||
| 4 | fly up | past | maid not said here | into the air result; with kinds = kind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
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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