The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 113
‘Yes, we do,’ replied the robber; ‘we have come to speak to you about that guitar.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, reply, come, speak · To what, where: robber, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 robber | det |
| 10 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | obl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 guitar | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 guitar | det |
| 22 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the robber | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent robber=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | about that guitar | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent about guitar=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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