The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 137
‘Oh!’ said the little mice, ‘how lucky you have been, you old fir-tree!’
Who acts: you · What happens: say, be, tree · To what, where: little mice · 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 (you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | 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 | 8 mice | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mice | amod |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lucky | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 lucky | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 lucky | advmod |
| 12 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 been | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 been | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lucky | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tree | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 tree | nsubj |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 19 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fir | punct |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lucky | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 lucky | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little mice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | lucky property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tree | you | tree rules |
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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