The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 74
‘Very well,’ said the peasant, ‘but you must call me “Father.”’
Who acts: you · What happens: say, call · To what, where: peasant, me · 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 (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peasant | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | aux |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Father | punct |
| 17 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 call | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Father | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Father | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | must | you | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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