The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 69
But Pinkel has a smooth tongue, and he can get the better of any woman, old or young.'
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: have, get · To what, where: smooth tongue
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 (Pinkel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 2 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tongue | det |
| 5 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tongue | amod |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 better | det |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 get | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 better | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | advcl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 young | cc |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 old | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Pinkel | a smooth tongue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | can | Pinkel | good 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 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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