The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 125
There was no work for him in the place he belonged to, and he wanted now to seek a place in the capital.
Who acts: work · What happens: be, belong, want, seek · To what, where: place, capital
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 (work), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 belonged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wanted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 wanted | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seek | mark |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no work for smith | the place; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | work | the place not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | work | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | work not said here | a place | the capital | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in capital=Location |
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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