The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
'My poor little pussies,' said she, 'of course you shall have some.'
Who acts: poor little pussies, you · What happens: say, have · To what, where: some · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little pussies, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pussies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pussies | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pussies | amod |
| 5 | pussies | pussy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pussies | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pussies | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My poor little pussies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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