The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 22
‘Rejoice in your youth,’ said the sunbeams, ‘rejoice in the sweet growing time, in the young life within you.’
What happens: rejoice, say, grow · To what, where: youth, sunbeams, young life · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 2 | Rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 youth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sunbeams | det |
| 10 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 13 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoice | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 life | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoice | obl |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | infinitive | your youth | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sunbeams | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | infinitive | the young life within you | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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