The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71
‘Catherine,’ she said, going up to the girl, ‘which would you rather have-a happy youth or a happy old age?’
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: say, go up, have · 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 (Catherine), 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 Catherine | punct |
| 2 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catherine | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catherine | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 have | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | parataxis |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 youth | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 youth | amod |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 age | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 age | det |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 age | amod |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 age | amod |
| 28 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 youth | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 age | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | to the girl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | would | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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