English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 31
The captain of the robbers took a pen and paper and wrote this letter:
Who acts: captain · What happens: take, write · To what, where: pen, letter
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain), 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 | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 robbers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 captain | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pen | det |
| 8 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 paper | cc |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pen | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrote | cc |
| 12 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 letter | det |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrote | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the captain of the robbers | a pen and paper | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | past | the captain of the robbers not said here | this letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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