The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 67
'Send Pinkel for it, Sire,' said they. '
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: send, say · To what, where: Pinkel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers), 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 | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 2 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Send | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Pinkel | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sire | punct |
| 7 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pinkel | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Send | parataxis |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | Pinkel and Sire | for lantern | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinkel=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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