The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 16
‘Oh, yes,’ said the clerk, ‘he can say “Moo” now.’
Who acts: man · What happens: say · To what, where: clerk, Moo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clerk | det |
| 9 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Moo | punct |
| 16 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Moo | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 say | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the clerk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clerk=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | man | Moo | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent moo=Topic |
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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