The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 51
‘Is it true,’ he asked, ‘ that you know nothing about poetry?’
Who acts: tongue, thing, you · What happens: be, ask, know · To what, where: nothing · 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 (tongue, thing, 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 | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 poetry | case |
| 16 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tongue | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | you | nothing | about poetry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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