The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 86
The squire said that that was well; there was nothing more for him to do that day.
Who acts: squire, nothing · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: that · 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 (squire, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 squire | det |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 that | mark |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | conj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 was | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nothing | amod |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 more | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the squire | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the squire not said here | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | squire | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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