The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 70
‘Willingly,’ said Hans; ‘but what road do I go, to get there?’
Who acts: Hans · What happens: say, go, get · 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 go | nsubj |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | willingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present · do-support | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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