The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 67
‘Yes, that’s a bad business,’ said she; ‘you must see if you can’t get him sent to Purgatory, to demand tribute.’
Who acts: that, bad business, you, fish · What happens: be, say, see, not get, send, demand · To what, where: bad business, fish, Purgatory, tribute · 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 (that, bad business, you, fish), 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 business | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 business | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 business | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 business | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 business | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 business | amod |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 business | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 business | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 get | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Purgatory | case |
| 26 | Purgatory | Purgatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 demand | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 demand | mark |
| 29 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | conj |
| 30 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 demand | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a bad business | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a bad business | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not get a condition, not said to happen | can | you | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | participle | fish not said here | Purgatory | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to purgatory=Destination | ||||
| 6 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | you not said here | tribute | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tribute=Precondition |
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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