The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 55
But I shall say nothing about it till everyone has had his turn!’
Who acts: I, everyone · What happens: say, have · To what, where: nothing, turn · 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 (I, everyone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 say | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 turn | nmod:poss |
| 13 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | shall | I | nothing | about money | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | everyone | Master's turn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Patient |
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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