The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 16
This is what people call sentiment, and I hope you enjoy it!
Who acts: This, people, I, you · What happens: be, call, hope, enjoy · To what, where: sentiment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, I, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hope | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoy | nsubj |
| 12 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hope | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoy | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | present | people | sentiment | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sentiment=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | enjoy | present | you | sentiment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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