The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 154
‘Now,’ said he, ‘you must each of you tie a stone to your necks, so that you may be sure to go deep enough, for I found the pigs that you saw very deep down indeed.’
Who acts: ‘, you, I · What happens: say, tie, be, go, find, see · To what, where: stone, pigs · 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 (‘, you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tie | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tie | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tie | aux |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 tie | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 each | nmod |
| 14 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tie | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 necks | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 necks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tie | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sure | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 sure | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sure | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sure | cop |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tie | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sure | xcomp |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pigs | det |
| 36 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 found | obj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 saw | obj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pigs | acl:relcl |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 deep | advmod |
| 41 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 42 down | advmod |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 39 saw | advmod |
| 43 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 39 saw | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ‘ | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tie | must | you | a stone | to your necks | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient to neck=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | deep, enough property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | I | the pigs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||||
| 6 | see | past | you | the pigs | down, indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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