The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 82
‘Good father,’ said the youth, ‘what can he be shooting at?’
Who acts: Good father, father · What happens: say, shoot · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good father, father), 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 | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shooting | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 shooting | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 shooting | obj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 shooting | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shooting | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 shooting | aux |
| 15 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 shooting | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 shooting | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 shooting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good father | the youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shoot | can · progressive | father | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.
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