The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 70
‘I can well believe that,’ said the peasant, ‘for you had nothing at all to start with.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: believe, say, have, start · To what, where: peasant, nothing, all · 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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 start | mark |
| 21 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 start | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | I | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | you | nothing | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 4 | start | to-infinitive | you not said here | nothing not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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