The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 124
This smith, whose name was Christian, had come for that same purpose.
Who acts: name, smith, Christian · What happens: be, come, name · To what, where: Christian
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 (name, smith, Christian), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Christian | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Christian | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Christian | cop |
| 7 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 smith | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 smith | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 purpose | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purpose | amod |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Christian's name | Christian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | this smith | for that same purpose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | Christian | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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