The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 100
In the market-place the boldest boys used often to fasten their sledges to the carts of the farmers, and then they got a good ride.
Who acts: boldest boys, flakes · What happens: use, fasten, get · To what, where: market place, sledges, good ride
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boldest boys, flakes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 3 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 market | punct |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 7 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 fasten | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fasten | mark |
| 12 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sledges | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fasten | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 carts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 carts | det |
| 17 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fasten | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 farmers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farmers | det |
| 20 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 got | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 ride | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ride | amod |
| 28 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the boldest boys | the market place | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fasten | to-infinitive | the boldest boys not said here | flakes's sledges | to the carts of the farmers; often property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to cart=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | get | past | flakes = flake | a good ride | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus |
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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