The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16
‘Oh well, it doesn’t matter, ‘said Hans, and there was no more about it.
Who acts: it, more · What happens: not matter, say, be · To what, where: Hans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, more), 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 | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 matter | discourse |
| 3 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 matter | advmod |
| 8 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | conj |
| 12 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 more | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | more about bargain | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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