The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 99
He shouted to Gerda, ‘I am going to the market-place to play with the other boys,’ and away he went.
Who acts: sledge, I · What happens: shout, go, play · To what, where: Gerda · 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 (sledge, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Gerda | case |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 shouted | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 12 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 market | punct |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 boys | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boys | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boys | amod |
| 20 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 play | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | sledge | Gerda | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to gerda=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | to the market place | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | I not said here | with the other boys | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | sledge | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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