The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 28
So he took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done Jack my Hedgehog pointed out the way and the King got safely home.
Who acts: King, Hedgehog · What happens: take, write, do, point out, get · To what, where: pen, something, Jack, way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Hedgehog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ink | cc |
| 6 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pen | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wrote | cc |
| 8 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 wrote | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 done | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 done | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 16 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 done | obj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pointed | nsubj |
| 19 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 pointed | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pointed | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pointed | conj |
| 27 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | pen and ink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | past | King not said here | something | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | King | Jack | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | point out | past | my Hedgehog | the way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | past | the King | home, safely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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