The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 40
‘Yes,’ said the student, ‘give me the book instead of the cheese.
What happens: say, give · To what, where: student, book, me · 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: 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 student | det |
| 7 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 cheese | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cheese | det |
| 17 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the student | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the book | me | instead the cheese | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient book=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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