The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 80
‘They were hungry and thirsty, but in the palace they did not even get a glass of water.
Who acts: wits · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: glass, palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wits), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thirsty | cc |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 glass | det |
| 18 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glass | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wits = wit | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | wits = wit not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not get | past · do-support | wits = wit | a glass of water | the palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=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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