The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 27
‘That’s so,’ said he, ‘I shall rise and have my breakfast.’
Who acts: Hans · What happens: say, rise, have · To what, where: breakfast · 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 (Hans), 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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 ’s | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rise | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 rise | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 rise | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rise | aux |
| 13 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rise | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | rise | shall | Hans | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | Hans not said here | my breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=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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