The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 75
So she looked up and replied, ‘Give me a happy old age.’
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: look up, reply, give · To what, where: happy old age, me
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 (woman, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Give | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Give | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Give | punct |
| 9 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 age | det |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 age | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 age | amod |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | woman not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | imperative | you not said here | a happy old age | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient age=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/75/