The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 91
‘No, it must have been his skates, for he went away with his skates!’
Who acts: bundle, Kay · What happens: be, go away · To what, where: skates
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 (bundle, Kay), 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 | _ | 9 skates | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 skates | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 skates | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 skates | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 skates | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 skates | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skates | nmod:poss |
| 9 | skates | skate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 skates | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 skates | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 skates | nmod:poss |
| 17 | skates | skate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 skates | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 skates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | bundle | Kay's skates | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | Kay | with Kay's skates; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with skate=Beneficiary |
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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