The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 83
That evening he called to his wife and said, ‘What have you got for supper?’
Who acts: trial, you · What happens: call, say, get · To what, where: wife · 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 (trial, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 got | obj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 supper | case |
| 17 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | trial | trial's wife | evening | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | trial not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | you | for supper | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme for supper=Source |
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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