The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 48

As soon as the young merchant came down again into the wood with his trunk he thought, ‘Now I will just go into the town to see how the show has taken.’

Who acts: maid, I · What happens: come down, think, go, see, take · To what, where: wood, trunk, town, show · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 merchant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merchant	amod
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 trunk	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trunk	nmod:poss
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wood	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trunk	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
20	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 go	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	advcl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 taken	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 show	det
32	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 taken	aux
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 see	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past			the wood with maid's trunk	again	as the young merchant; down, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	past	maid	maid's trunk not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trunk=Theme
3	go	future	I		the town	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
4	see	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	take	present · perfect · passive		the show				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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