The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 53
‘Well,’ he said to himself, ‘if I have been taken in, the others shall not come off any better.’
Who acts: Master, others · What happens: say, take in, not come off · To what, where: Master, I · 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 (Master, others), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 taken | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 come | compound:prt |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 better | advmod |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 come | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Master | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take in a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | I | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | not come off | shall | the others | good property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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