The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 107
‘What does this mean?’ thought the tree.
Who acts: this · What happens: mean, think · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute clause=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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