The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 9
‘Yes, let us do that,’ said Ivan, and he took down his cap and went into the garden with his old wife.
Who acts: us, Ivan, Marie · What happens: let, do, say, take down, go · To what, where: us, that, cap, garden · 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 (us, Ivan, Marie), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cap | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wife | amod |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | us not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take down | past | Marie | Marie's cap | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Marie not said here | the garden | with Marie's old wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location |
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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