The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 81
‘A few of the cleverest had brought some slices of bread and butter with them, but they did not share them with their neighbour, for they thought, “If he looks hungry, the princess will not take him!”’
Who acts: wits, row, princess · What happens: bring, not share, think, look, not take, slice · To what, where: cleverest, slices, row, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
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, row, princess), 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 | _ | 3 few | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 few | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brought | det |
| 6 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 few | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 slices | det |
| 10 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bread | case |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slices | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 butter | cc |
| 14 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slices | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 butter | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 share | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 share | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 share | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 share | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 share | advmod |
| 22 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 few | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 share | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 neighbour | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 share | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 thought | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 share | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 33 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 looks | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looks | nsubj |
| 35 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 take | advcl |
| 36 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 looks | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looks | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 take | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 take | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 take | advmod |
| 42 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 take | obj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | cleverest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination slice=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not share | past · do-support | wits = wit | slices = slice | with wits's neighbour | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | wits = wit | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | row | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not take in a quote | future | the princess | row | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 6 | slice | bread | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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