The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 47
‘Oh, no’ said the steward, ‘there are good enough ways yet.
Who acts: good enough ways · What happens: say, be · To what, where: steward · 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 (good enough ways), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steward | det |
| 8 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ways | amod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ways | amod |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 are | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent steward=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does | present | good enough ways | there | yet | 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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