The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 40
And his brothers and sister answered joyfully, ‘Yes, we will all work!’
Who acts: brothers, we · What happens: answer, work · 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 (brothers, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sister | cc |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | conj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 6 answered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 10 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 15 work | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yes | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 work | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 work | advmod |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Labros's brothers and sister | joyfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | future | we | all property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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