The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 131
‘No, I did not,’ she answered; ‘the girl went off with your dinner.
Who acts: I, wife, girl · What happens: not do, answer, go off
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, girl), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dinner | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | the girl | with your dinner | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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