The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 117
“With all the pleasure in life,” said Pivi, who was always ready to oblige.
Who acts: Pivi · What happens: say, be, oblige · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pleasure | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pleasure | det |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleasure | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ready | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 ready | advmod |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Pivi | amod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 oblige | mark |
| 18 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pivi | with all pleasure in life | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with pleasure=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pivi | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oblige | to-infinitive | Pivi not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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