The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 131
These sat down beside Christian, and ordered drinks, and drank along with him.
Who acts: These · What happens: sit down, drink · To what, where: ordered drinks, 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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 Christian | case |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drinks | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drinks | cc |
| 8 | ordered | ordered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drinks | amod |
| 9 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drank | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drank | cc |
| 12 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 drank | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | These | ordered drinks | Christian | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside christian=Location | |||
| 2 | drink | past | These not said here | with Christian; along property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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