The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 149
I have just brought up these, and mean to return for some more.’
Who acts: I · What happens: bring up, mean, return · To what, where: these, some
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mean | cc |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 return | mark |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mean | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 return | obj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 some | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | present · perfect | I | these | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | some | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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