The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 89
Only the fir-tree kept silent, and thought, ‘Am I not to be in it?
Who acts: I · What happens: keep, think, not be · To what, where: fir tree, babel · 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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 tree | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 13 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 it | cop |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 it | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 it | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 it | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 it | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle · passive | the fir tree | silent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | babel | 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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