The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 19
Peter can’t learn well out of the ones that he has got.’
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not learn, get · To what, where: ones
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 (Peter), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 learn | advmod |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 learn | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learn | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 got | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 ones | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | can | Peter | out the ones; well property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | Peter | the ones | 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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