The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 135
If they ask, just say they are Count Piro’s; it will be better for everybody.”
Who acts: paws, you, crowd · What happens: ask, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paws, you, crowd), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Piro | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Piro | cop |
| 9 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Piro | compound |
| 10 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Piro | case |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 better | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 better | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 better | cop |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 say | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 everybody | case |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 better | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | paws = paw | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | paws = paw | 's Count Piro | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | future | crowd | for everybody; good property | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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