The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 42
He read the paragraph to them, and added, ‘I wonder, now, whether that could be your bull-calf Peter?’
Who acts: Peter, I, that · What happens: read, add, wonder, be · To what, where: paragraph, columns, bull calf · 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 (Peter, I, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 paragraph | det |
| 4 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 read | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 read | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 added | cc |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wonder | nsubj |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 added | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 now | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wonder | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 calf | punct |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 calf | mark |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 calf | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 calf | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 calf | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 calf | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 calf | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bull | punct |
| 24 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonder | parataxis |
| 25 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 calf | appos |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 Peter | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 calf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Peter | the paragraph | columns = column | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent paragraph=Topic to they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Peter not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | now | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | could | that | your bull calf | tree rules |
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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