The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 3
‘You are right in that,’ said the fox, ‘for it relates to the bird Grip, which you want to take and bring home to your blind father; I could help you in this, but in that case you must follow my counsel.’
Who acts: You, fashion, bird Grip, I · What happens: be, say, relate, want, take, bring · To what, where: that, fox, bird Grip, blind father, you, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fashion, bird Grip, I), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 right | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 relates | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 relates | nsubj |
| 16 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ‘ | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Grip | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Grip | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Grip | compound |
| 20 | Grip | Grip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 relates | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 want | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 want | nsubj |
| 24 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Grip | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 want | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bring | cc |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 bring | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 father | amod |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 help | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 help | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 help | aux |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 help | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 this | case |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 help | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 follow | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 follow | cc |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 case | case |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 case | det |
| 45 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 follow | obl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 follow | nsubj |
| 47 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 follow | aux |
| 48 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 help | parataxis |
| 49 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 50 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 follow | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 follow | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | that | right property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | relate | present | fashion | to the bird Grip | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to grip=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | the bird Grip | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bird Grip not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bring | infinitive | the bird Grip not said here | your blind father | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to father=Destination | |||
| 7 | help | could | I | you | this | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | follow | must | you | my counsel | that case | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme in case=Trajectory |
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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