The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 23
‘It is all right,’ he cried; ‘now you can open it.’
Who acts: lid, dragon, you · What happens: be, cry, open · To what, where: lid · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lid, dragon, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 open | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 open | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | aux |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 open | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | lid | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | dragon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | can | you | lid | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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