The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 134
‘I?’ said the fir-tree, and then it thought over what it had told them.
Who acts: I, much · What happens: say, think, tell · To what, where: fir tree, much, birds · 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 (I, much), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fir | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 thought | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 thought | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the fir tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | much | then | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | much | birds = bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic |
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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