The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 20
‘Well, well,’ said the man, ‘what must be spent shall be spent.’
What happens: say, spend · To what, where: man · 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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | 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 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spent | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spent | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 spent | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 spent | obj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 spent | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spent | aux:pass |
| 15 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 spent | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spent | aux:pass |
| 18 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 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 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | spend | must · passive | the man | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: what=Asset | |||||
| 3 | spend | shall · passive | the man | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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