The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 38
When this was arranged, Christian bade him ‘Good-day,’ and went down among the guards, and then out into the town along with other soldiers and under-officers.
What happens: arrange, go down · To what, where: this, town, guards
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bade | amod |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arranged | obj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bade | obj |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 10 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Good | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arranged | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 guards | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guards | det |
| 20 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 town | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 town | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 out | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 town | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arranged | obl |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 31 soldiers | case |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 soldiers | case |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 soldiers | amod |
| 31 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 town | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 officers | cc |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 officers | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 under | punct |
| 35 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 soldiers | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | this | the town along other soldiers and officers | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bade=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | the guards | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among guard=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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