The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 38
‘Who should know better than I?’ said the beast, and his eyes sparkled.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: know, say, sparkle · To what, where: beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (eyes), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 know | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 I | case |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sparkled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sparkled | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sparkled | nsubj |
| 17 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | should | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the beast | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | past | Spitzbergen's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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