The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63
‘Il faut souffrir pour etre belle,’ said the barber, who had been in France.
Who acts: Il faut souffrir, barber · What happens: pour, say, be · To what, where: etre belle, barber, France · 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 (Il faut souffrir, barber), 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 pour | punct |
| 2 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 souffrir | compound |
| 3 | faut | faut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 souffrir | compound |
| 4 | souffrir | souffrir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pour | nsubj |
| 5 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | etre | etre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belle | compound |
| 7 | belle | belle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pour | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pour | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pour | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barber | det |
| 12 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 France | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 France | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 France | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 France | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 barber | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | present | Il faut souffrir | etre belle | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the barber | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the barber | France | tree rules |
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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