The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 70
The following day they went to the market and bought chickens and other eatables, and after they had packed them on the back of the goat (which they had brought with them), they told it all the dishes they wished their wives to prepare.
Who acts: goats · What happens: follow, go, buy, pack, bring, tell · To what, where: market, chickens, back, goat, dishes, wives · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 market | det |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bought | cc |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bought | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eatables | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eatables | amod |
| 14 | eatables | eatables | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chickens | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 packed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 packed | cc |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 packed | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 packed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 packed | aux |
| 20 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 went | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 packed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 back | det |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 packed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 goat | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 goat | det |
| 27 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 brought | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 goat | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obl |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 brought | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 told | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 told | nsubj |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 packed | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 told | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 dishes | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dishes | det |
| 42 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 told | obj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wished | nsubj |
| 44 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 told | ccomp |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wives | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 wished | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 prepare | mark |
| 48 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 wished | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | goats = goat | the market | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | buy | past | goats = goat not said here | chickens and other eatables | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pack | past · perfect | goats = goat | chickens = chicken | the back of the goat | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the goat | with goats = goat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | goats = goat | all dishes | back | tree rules | |||
| 7 | wish | past | goats = goat | goats's wives | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | ||||
| 8 | prepare | to-infinitive | goats = goat not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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