The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 13
At last an idea struck him, and he said to his sons: ‘You must all go out into the world, and look about you, and each learn a trade, and then, when you return, whoever can produce the best masterpiece shall have the house.’
Who acts: father, You, whoever, best masterpiece · What happens: strike, say, go out, look, learn, return · To what, where: father, last idea, world, trade, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, You, whoever, best masterpiece), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 idea | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 idea | amod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 look | cc |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | parataxis |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 look | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 learn | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 learn | cc |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 learn | advmod |
| 32 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 trade | det |
| 34 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 learn | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 return | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 return | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 return | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 return | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 return | advmod |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 return | nsubj |
| 41 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 learn | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 produce | punct |
| 43 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 produce | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 produce | aux |
| 45 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 learn | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 masterpiece | det |
| 47 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 masterpiece | amod |
| 48 | masterpiece | masterpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 have | nsubj |
| 49 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 have | aux |
| 50 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 produce | ccomp |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 house | det |
| 52 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 have | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | father | a last idea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | to father's sons | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to son=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out | must | You | the world | all, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | about you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme | |||||
| 5 | learn | present | a trade | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic | |||||
| 6 | return | present | you | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | produce | can | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | have | shall | the best masterpiece | the house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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