The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 8
A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares.
Who acts: child, Moses · What happens: read, find, examine, compare · To what, where: Blue Fairy Books, old friends, Pink Fairy Book
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, Moses), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 read | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 child | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Books | det |
| 7 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Books | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Red | cc |
| 9 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Blue | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Yellow | cc |
| 11 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Blue | conj |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Books | compound |
| 13 | Books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 friends | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friends | amod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 faces | case |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faces | amod |
| 21 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 friends | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Book | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Book | det |
| 24 | Pink | Pink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Book | compound |
| 25 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Book | compound |
| 26 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 friends | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 examines | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 examines | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 examines | nsubj |
| 30 | examines | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 compares | cc |
| 32 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 examines | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · perfect | a child | the Blue Fairy Books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | future | a child | some old friends | the Pink Fairy Book | with new faces | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||
| 3 | examine a condition, not said to happen | present | Moses | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | compare | present | Moses not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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