The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 101
Then he also heard the priest offer up a prayer of thanksgiving because the land had been freed from war and pestilence, and from all misfortune, and the king’s daughter delivered from the evil one.
Who acts: smith, priest, daughter, thanksgiving · What happens: hear, offer up, free, deliver, pray · To what, where: priest, prayer, land, war
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, priest, daughter, thanksgiving), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 offer | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prayer | det |
| 10 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thanksgiving | case |
| 12 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prayer | nmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 freed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 freed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 freed | aux:pass |
| 18 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 offer | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 war | case |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 freed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pestilence | cc |
| 22 | pestilence | pestilence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 war | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 misfortune | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 misfortune | cc |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 misfortune | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 misfortune | det |
| 27 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 delivered | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 delivered | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 king | case |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 delivered | nsubj |
| 34 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 delivered | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | smith | the priest | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer up | infinitive | the priest not said here | a prayer of thanksgiving | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | free | past · perfect · passive | the land | war and pestilence | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | deliver | past | the king's daughter | from the evil one | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pray | thanksgiving | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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