The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 143
He rowed on a little further and asked again, ‘Are my eyes not green yet?’
Who acts: mound · What happens: row, ask, be · To what, where: eyes · 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 (mound), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 further | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 further | obl |
| 6 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 rowed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rowed | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 asked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 12 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eyes | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 green | advmod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 asked | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 rowed | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | mound | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mound not said here | again; yet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | my eyes | tree rules |
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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