The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 13
‘Go back at once,’ said his majesty, ‘and try to get a sight of her.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go back, say, try, get, sight · To what, where: majesty, sight, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 try | cc |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | maiden's majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majesty=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a sight of girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sight | girl | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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