The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 31
‘Will you have a bite of bread?’ said the smith.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, say, bite · To what, where: bite, smith, bread · 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 (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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bite | det |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bread | case |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smith | det |
| 13 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | a bite of bread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the smith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bite | bread | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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