The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 95
‘Can she have robbed me?’ thought the old lady, and looked hastily round the house; but nothing was missing.
Who acts: mistress, nothing · What happens: rob, think, look, be · To what, where: me, old lady
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 (mistress, nothing), 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 robbed | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 robbed | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 robbed | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 robbed | aux |
| 5 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 robbed | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 robbed | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 robbed | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 missing | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 missing | cc |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 missing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 missing | cop |
| 24 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | can · perfect | mistress | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the old lady | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | round the house; hastily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round house=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | nothing | missing property | 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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