The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 112
They thought he had just got frightened and run away, and next evening a new one was posted in the church.
Who acts: king, tuft · What happens: think, get, run away, post · To what, where: new one, church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, tuft), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 run | cc |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 posted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 posted | cc |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 evening | amod |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 posted | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 posted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 posted | aux:pass |
| 19 | posted | post | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 posted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | tuft | frightened property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run away | present | tuft not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | post | past · passive | a new one | the church | evening | vn send-11.1 «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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