The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43
‘Yes, of course it is,’ said the man; ‘who else would it be?’
Who acts: course · What happens: be, say · 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: who acts (course), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 is | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 be | nsubj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 who | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 be | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | course | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | would | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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