The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 111
He understands everything, and will always carry any message I give him.’
Who acts: dog, I · What happens: understand, carry, give · To what, where: everything, message, dog
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understands | nsubj |
| 2 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 understands | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 carry | advmod |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 understands | conj |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 message | det |
| 10 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 message | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understands | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 understands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | dog | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry | future | dog not said here | any message | always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | present | I | any message not said here | dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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