The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 61
‘No, my good fellow,’ said Hans, ‘you won’t get off until you promise to bring all the fish in the lake up to the squire’s courtyard, before to-morrow morning.’
Who acts: Hans, you · What happens: say, not get off, promise, bring up · To what, where: fish, lake · 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, you), 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 fellow | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 fellow | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 get | compound:prt |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 promise | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promise | xcomp |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 fish | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fish | det |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bring | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 lake | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lake | det |
| 28 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 bring | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 courtyard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 squire | det |
| 32 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 squire | case |
| 34 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 morning | punct |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 morning | case |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 morrow | case |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 to | punct |
| 39 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 morning | compound |
| 40 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get off | future | you | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring up not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | all fish | the lake | to the squire's courtyard | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=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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