The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 55
‘You are right,’ he replied; ‘ I had not thought of that!’
Who acts: You, man, I · What happens: be, reply, not think
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 (You, man, I), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 thought | advmod |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 right | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thought | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · perfect | I | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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