The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 55
‘O Peter,’ said he, ‘what a sorrow you have caused us, both myself and your mother, by running off like this just as we had got you well educated!
Who acts: Peter, we · What happens: say, cause, run off, get, educate · To what, where: sorrow, us, you · 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, we), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Peter | discourse |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 caused | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sorrow | det |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | aux |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 myself | punct |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 myself | cc:preconj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mother | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 myself | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 running | punct |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 running | mark |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 got | advcl |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 running | compound:prt |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 this | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 running | obl |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 got | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 got | mark |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 got | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 got | aux |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 got | obj |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 educated | advmod |
| 36 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 got | advcl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cause | present · perfect · passive | a sorrow | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run off | gerund | we not said here | like this | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | we | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | educate speech: other | participle | we not said here | well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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