The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 104
‘What kind of a hurry is this to come home in?’ said she.
Who acts: kind, cow · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, cow), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 kind | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hurry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hurry | det |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | cop |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | what kind of a hurry | come, home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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