The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45
‘You must each take it in turn to own him for a night and a day, or else you will all be fighting over the money.’
Who acts: You · What happens: take, own, fight · To what, where: price, turn, donkey
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), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 turn | case |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 own | mark |
| 10 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 own | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 own | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 day | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 night | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fighting | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 fighting | cc |
| 20 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 fighting | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fighting | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fighting | aux |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 fighting | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fighting | aux |
| 25 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 own | advcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 money | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 money | det |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fighting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | You | price | turn | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location | |||
| 2 | own | to-infinitive | You not said here | donkey | night | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 3 | fight | future · progressive | you | over the money; all, else property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over money=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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