The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 120
But they never got it, for in the morning, they too had disappeared like the rest.
Who acts: king · What happens: not get, disappear · To what, where: payment
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), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disappeared | nsubj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 disappeared | advmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disappeared | aux |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappeared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past | king | payment | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | king | like the rest | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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