The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 52
‘All right,’ said Hans; ‘I am well content with that, but I must have something with me to eat--a baking of bread, a cask of butter, a barrel of ale, and a keg of brandy.
Who acts: Hans, I · What happens: say, be, have, eat, bake · To what, where: well content, something, bread · 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, I), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 content | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 content | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 content | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 content | cop |
| 12 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 content | amod |
| 13 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 content | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 content | parataxis |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 something | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 something | acl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 baking | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 baking | det |
| 28 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 content | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 bread | case |
| 30 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 baking | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cask | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cask | det |
| 33 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 content | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 butter | case |
| 35 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cask | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 barrel | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 barrel | det |
| 38 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 content | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 ale | case |
| 40 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 barrel | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 keg | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 keg | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 keg | det |
| 44 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 content | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 brandy | case |
| 46 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 keg | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | well content and a baking of bread and a cask of butter and a barrel of ale and a keg of brandy | with that | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | must | I | something | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bake | bread | nom baking «act 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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