The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 22
‘Good father, it is finished,’ said he at length; ‘there is nothing more left to divide.’
Who acts: father · What happens: finish, say, be, divide · To what, where: Good father, length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | aux:pass |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | cop |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 is | nsubj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 left | advmod |
| 20 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 divide | mark |
| 22 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 left | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · passive | Good father | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | left property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | divide | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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